Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 03:13:53PM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote: > > Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > > > > nothing to do with open source. For example, the govrenment could > > > have required for the bid that the resulting software should be > > > made available to the govrenment or/and to the public. > > > > Isn't it exactly what they do? > > Even Microsoft gave them the full source code of all its products... > > What's exactly the point of having the source if you can't use it? > > If SAP/MS goes down or discontinues the product, can the source code be > used for further maintinance?
Again, it was not my point. The original poster wrote (well, not exactly in these words...): "Hey, they budgeted 470M NIS for Merkava, let's use it for Open- Source!" So I answered that this money was already budgeted for licenses of SAP and work around SAP and deployment etc. So Tzachi wrote "I have to disagree on that". ???! Open the budget books, and see for yourself that I'm right. And then I wrote that we agree on almost anything. But I can't agree when there are some mistakes, so I had to note (ONLY AS A SIDE NOTE!) that this and that are mistakes (e.g. the budget is not $470M but $470 NIS). The point is that these 470M NIS are budgeted for very specific things that have nothing to do with Open-Source (maybe except for the platform used to run the servers. Which is probably 0.02%-0.04% of the whole budget). The Government already obligated to SAP and to companies with knowledge of SAP programming. And in any case, a major part of the money is not for software development, but for issues like typists, accountants (to build the accounting modules), training, etc. You may agree with the logic of that, you may disagree, but you can't disagree that this is the fact; just open the budget books and see it for yourself. -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
