2009/4/8 John Bywater <[email protected]>: > This is an important subject, so let's try to be very clear. Open source is > *not* the be-all and end-all of anything. Nothing is, since there is No > Silver Bullet....
*snipped very long meta-analysis* Indeed there is no silver bullet. No-one other than Mr S. T. Rawman has suggested that there is. Quite the contrary. The way I see it is this. Rightly or wrongly, well or badly, a bunch of councils are being given a million quid of public money to write some software. No-one knows what it's going to be like. But even if it turns out to be half-arsed, open source means that anyone can use that half arse if it suits them or append the other half of the arse if it doesn't with the minimum of fuss and expense. I think that's a sound enough proposition for a 30-day petition. The radical re-engineering of government software development and procurement might have to wait until next month. -- Adrian Short http://adrianshort.co.uk/ http://twitter.com/adrianshort _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
