Great missing keyword: compatibility and compliance. -- so close thought. Companies are cartels and giving back to open source for them means developing their own, incompatible island of software instead of learning the current implementation.
So compatibility is a terribly needed word. I hope the editor can 'mistakenly' add this word to the quote. :D -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ Mensaje citado por RobinH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is an extract from a New Zealand Green Party newsletter, which may be > of interest. > DHB = "District Health Board", a local body which administers hospitals etc. > Nandor is a Green Member of Parliament. NZ has a population of just over 4M. > Robin in New Zealand > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Govt should follow DHB lead on open source software > > Green Party IT Spokesperson Nandor Tanczos is congratulating District > Health Boards on their move towards adopting open source software and other > Government agencies should follow their lead. > > A report in the IT media today says DHBs are to trial a two-tier system, > with only their most intensive software users staying with Microsoft's > proprietary products and the rest going to open source, such as > openoffice.org. They will also be asking makers of health-related software > to develop open source versions of their products and pushing for greater > representation in the Governments bulk contract negotiations with > Microsoft. New Zealands DHBs have paid Microsoft $20 million in license > fees over the last three years. > > I'm sure New Zealanders want their tax dollars going into treating patients > rather than building Bill Gates' empire, said Nandor. > > Open source is a more cost effective option than commercial software all > round and making greater use of it in the health sector would benefit > hospital staff, patients and the local software industry. > > (etc) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
