On Friday 12 August 2005 20:34, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > FLOSS is often concerned with doing things right rather than doing > it quick and cheap.
And invariably doing it right translates to quick and cheap. The prop software companies will con u by fixing the metrics while measuring costs. Eg. defining the life of a product to be three yrs. with a unlearning curve of 1yr (because of users learned behaviour) for floss, the saving are realized over only two yrs, whereas the product usage of even M$ is well over 5yrs. In the case of governments there is something far more relevant which increases the cost exponentially - life of data. Think land records - infinite life, Income tax 12yrs (afaik), criminal records 30yrs. Put your data in anything other than an unecumbered (free as in beer, non patented, open) format and u have screwed everybody. rgds jtd -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
