Selling open source to the powers-that-be
The idea of thinking up a hypothetical situation and then asking a group of qualified panellists to visualise how each would react to it is nothing new.
Eminent Australian lawyer Geoffrey Robertson is well known for devising this kind of situ-drama for TV and, often, using his scenarios to put people on the spot.
It was a different kind of hypothetical situation devised in Brisbane on Wednesday, one in which four seasoned IT practitioners and one expert in economic consulting were asked to try and sell the idea of open source to a minister in the Queensland government.
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