On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il>wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 06:01:27PM +0200, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > Hello all, and especially the avid argumentative people, > > > > The Technion debate club has offered to organize a show-debate on the > > subject of FOSS vs. proprietary software. > > Could you please be more specific? There are a number of quite different > questions: > > * Is FOSS useful for the economy? > * Is proprietary software good for the economy? > * Is proprietary software immoral? > > etc. > > > Here is an example of a more focused question: > > Should FOSS be preffered to proprietary software in goverenment > contracts? > > The specific question was not decided yet. Given the resignation of Boaz Dolev of the ministry of finance, who is a supporter of FOSS in gov, it is a good time for the gov question, IMHO. Another battlefield is the user's perspective - "should I prefer to install FOSS on my machine(s)" (as opposed to should I prefer to develop FOSS). > Note that this question mostly ignores moral aspects. > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is > http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's > tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best > ICQ# 16849754 | | friend > _______________________________________________ > Haifux mailing list > Haifux@haifux.org > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux >
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