FOSS Development As Economic Stimulus

2009-01-14 Thread Bradley Holt
I'm sure you all are Slashdot readers, so you probably already saw this: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F14%2F0032223 What do you think of this idea? Could be an interesting idea at a state level even if it doesn't go anywhere federally. Thanks, Bradley --

Re: FOSS Development As Economic Stimulus

2009-01-14 Thread David
Just thought I would point out the add about MS Office below the article you linked, found it a bit comical. I'm sure it is a random add, but it did seem almost appropriate. On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Bradley Holt bradley.h...@gmail.comwrote: I'm sure you all are Slashdot readers, so you

Fwd: Response to your inquiry

2009-01-14 Thread Balu Raman
FYI. This may be of interest to Vaguers. My apologies if you are already aware of this - balu -- Forwarded message -- From: Jane Kitchel jane...@hotmail.com Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:12:33 -0500 Subject: RE: Response to your inquiry To: brama...@gmail.com Cc:

Re: FOSS Development As Economic Stimulus

2009-01-14 Thread daniel connelly
Jeez, Bradley, didn't you get the memo. There are no programmers left in America to be stimulated, or do the stimulating, whichever comes first.Here I speak particularly of a software project already endorsed by our Preez-to-be and, sad to say, project without significant FOSSing, to date:

Re: Response to your inquiry

2009-01-14 Thread Chad Avery
Balu, I like your direct comments about the benefits of FOSS. Thanks for sharing. On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Balu Raman brama...@gmail.com wrote: FYI. This may be of interest to Vaguers. My apologies if you are already aware of this - balu -- Forwarded message --

Re: NYT Ubuntu Article

2009-01-14 Thread Dan Connelly
I wish Ubuntu well, but I wish Google even more well. Android! Sneaking up on the rail: Linux kernel, unGNU libc. http://code.google.com/android/what-is-android.html Android will be The Cloud Client, and not just on handsets. Significant difference between Ubuntu and Android is that Google

Re: FOSS Development As Economic Stimulus

2009-01-14 Thread Balu Raman
AthenaHealth is hoping to be a big player here. AthenaHealth is owned by (CEO), another Bush , a cousin of our notorious pres. George Bush. The whole health care is going to hell, because : * The healthcare in this country has so much crap accumulated over the years, that digitizing the crap is

Re: FOSS Development As Economic Stimulus

2009-01-14 Thread Josh Sled
daniel connelly daniel.s.conne...@comcast.net writes: There are no programmers left in America to be stimulated, or do the stimulating, whichever comes first. There aren't? Someone better tell Silicon Valley… to this point has been that the government has deferred to the free market

FOSS for digitized health records [was Stimulus'

2009-01-14 Thread Dan Connelly
1. Jeez, Josh, I was just picking up on CNN (tongue-in-cheek-ly) where they say that implementing digitized health records will be horrendously expensive because specialized labor is scarce. 2. RED FLAG for US programmers: They say you are scarce. They want continued

Open Source Software in the Government

2009-01-14 Thread Alvin ONeal
I thought it might be useful to know that if an idea gets enough votes on Obama's site, he (supposedly) reviews it. Here are the ideas related to open source software. http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/search/SearchResults?str=open+sourcesearch.x=0search.y=0search=Submit I hope that that is