Pierre-Luc Beaudoin

Snow storm: “Take the public transports!”

Really? Please don’t. It might sound like a good idea to fall back on the public transportation when you can’t find your car under the snow or when it won’t start. But think of all the regular users, the ones who pay monthly to use it. You are only going to add pressure to an already heavily used network. Its capacity doesn’t increase on snow days!

I already have problems finding a place when going on at Métro St-Laurent, how many trains will I have to wait to find one on snow days?

Why should I be the one waiting while this is my chosen transportation method? I chose to use an ecologic and weather proof transport. Did you? if we were all using the public transporation everyday, we’d have a much better network.

C-552 is quite what we need

Have a look at this NDP proposed bill C-552.  It is exactly what we need, right now. In this time of net throttling and censorship, we need law that will make it clear that every company or person’s data is equal on the network.

Ask your MP to support this bill!

The Gouvernement du Québec sued over renewal of proprietary licences

Savoir Faire Linux has decided to go and sue the Gouvernement du Québec about their choice of Microsoft Windows Vista without a proper call for tenders. This is supposedly a first in North America, and I personally hope they do win.

The Gouvernement du Québec is a 100% Microsoft Windows installation as far as we can see. This could be great for the local businesses working in the domain. Switching to Linux could boost our economy by not sending 80 M$ straight away into the US.

Here is the French press release:

• RRQ/DA02481 - Requête en jugement déclaratoire à la Cour supérieure du Québec - La longue route du logiciel libre au Québec