Happypony

Coming from a low income bracket we use linux in our household, I see the proposed net filter making it costly and slow to use the net. Plus with cloud computing coming up in the future view, how can a highly filtered slow restrictive net benefit us. Australia will become a 3rd world technology wise country, people will be restricted from using free easily downloaded software, it will make it cost prohibitive. Why should us low income people be made to miss out on the benefits of free open source software, that's delivered by the internet, which will be made in effective by the filters. How it fair when you make downloading a 700 mb live cd iso, impossibly slow to download with the filters. On the subject of Free open source software, senator how come the Australian governments not using linux but instead buy Microsoft software, in the coming economic recession wouldn't it be better to use linux ( http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21861/1141/) instead of sending our IT money to overseas. Why not encourages the Australian students as part of there IT curriculum to help develop an Australian distribution of linux.