[Discuss] UVic's new portal now available to students, unless they use Firefox

[Corey Burger]

On 5/5/06, Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert/MAXIMUS BC <thor.wolpert at maximusbc.ca> wrote:
> Wow ... how far have we not come, considering the first Linux "Distro" was done in Victoria!
>
> Although maybe not too surprising as other closed source sw has been funded by gov't grants and uvic $ ... we wouldn't want our tax dollars supporting OSS on the Island *g*.
>
> Thor HW

Actually, our tax dollars are actually supporting OSS on the island.
Check out SILC (www.silc.ca). They are working with local groups that
help the disadvantaged and Native groups and they are using
exclusively OSS.

Corey