On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:03, Tom Bowden wrote: > Interconnect with all other systems via open interfaces > Be useable by dummies and totally reliable under all circumstances > Embrace all forms of security; HESA PKI, PGP etc > Support all ratified Australian standards > Update itself automatically
I don't think any of these demands could be considered as unreasonable. In fact I think they are pretty much essential, don't you agree? (once we get rid of the hyperbole like "all" ratified Australian standards, "totally" reliable etc.) > Cost nothing Nobody suggested that. But I have the impression that a majority of us objects to the "toll road" principle for very good reasons - meaning we are happy to pay for software *once* if it does what we want it to do, and maybe again for updates if we deem them necessary, but we see only huge and entirely unnecessary drawbacks in a pay per message model Even non-IT people nowadays start to understand what vendor lock in means long term (e.g. the Sydney tunnel disaster) Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
