Innovation

Most important for labour unions, if they are to compete against big brother is to ``be the first in line'' when new software models, and innovative hardware comes along. Very much like Linux taking the commercial market by storm, another product may come along and cause the market to salivate. Labour unions must be on the other side of that fence. They must be ready to proudly say, ``we told you so!''

To go along with this ``we told you so'' mentality, the labour movement must also be receptive to external ideas. The need for talented staffers to continuously explore and crawl the Internet for new software products which can be downloaded, installed, tested, and redistributed for free with labour movements across the globe, is imperative. The existence of many central points of information for the free software foundation and open source movement already exist (see the list of references at the end of this document.) It's just a matter of scanning the page for the daily announcement of new products to be released on a daily basis. You will oft find a gem, to fulfil a need in your cyber office.

The most attractive feature of the Free Software Foundation (and by default, Linux) is the fact that it's free. This allows for several things to occur. Firstly, it remove the excuse for wasting money to ``check out'' new and innovative software products. The only wasting that happens (if a software product fails to meet expectations during testing) is the effort it took for this talented staffer to investigate it. Secondly, it means that the cyber unions can remain on the bleeding edge of software technology while minimising downtime, and crashes.