The Register has an article on the subject this morning. I tend to agree with their position that open standards is the important requirement, not specifically open source. There may be situations in which the only satisfactory program available is not open source, but worth the price.
At the present time in history, I would hope that open source would be widely used in government. Having seen some of the backwaters of government, I'm not sure all the staff is up to managing it. Choppy At 09:33 PM 8/20/02 -0500, you wrote: >I like the idea of Open Source in Government. Like any tool, it has to be >managed properly but I think that at its best Open Source is better than any >proprietary system.
