You are correct when you state that the question wasn’t particularly well-phrased, although I did feel that there was at least some degree of deliberation in their responses. This is politics, after all. I never implied that they were idiots. Maybe I’ve just become cynical in my experiences

While they did make mentions of pulling away from the ‘great consumer’ policy, I was not persuaded by their stated plans to do so. Based on this, I can’t see much change occurring on this front during the next electoral term.

Neither side “deliberately confuse[d] open standards and open source when questioned about them”: The problem lay 100% with the question. It was very badly overloaded, and badly messaged. It’s not because they’re idiots or malicious that we need to split those messages.

The last part of the question was, “Does either party have a policy for migrating to 100% open standards?” — *any* question like that should ring alarm bells, and in this case, because it was overloaded with open source earlier in the query (and agitated by the terrible messaging from the Greens candidate), the MPs were under a cloud. Della Bosca certainly knows the difference, regardless.

Plus, *both* MPs promoted NSW as a producer in their statements, and referred to the unfortunate history of “great consumer” policy. You’re inaccurately reporting their statements.