Hi Keith,
thanks for your kind comments. The point that I had attempted to make is
that the principle of open source should determine its adoption and not its
immediate technical benefit and far less the appeasement of any lobby. It
should be embraced as a principle. Needless to say, given that a lot of these
decisions are taken by bean counters who only on occasion resort to the higher
faculties of reason, we will be looked upon as yet another lobby. I am trying
to convey the concept between of what's right instead of doing what's popular.
Cheers
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 15:45 +0100, Keith Vassallo wrote:
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for this!
Of course, what one should realise is that neither the government nor many of
the MITA people actually want open souce. It's just that some people in
important places now have businesses selling open source solutions - some of
which are being pitched at government tenders. So of course MITA can't keep
it's Microsoft centric policy if these tender proposals are to go through. I
know this not from heresay, but from very reliable people in the know and some
conferences/seminars organised by MITA & the interested parties which I've
attended in various capacities.
Excuse me for being negative, and i hope I'm wrong, but I hardly think OSS is
being "pushed" through MITA based on technical benefits and cost savings in the
public sector. More likely, it's the safeguarding of private interests, as
usual. Then again, I will gladly bite my tongue if I'm wrong - and if the
result is more OSS in government... then who cares how it got there?
Regardless, well done for the response Andrew - I wouldn't change a word myself.
K
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heard nothing from you so i went it alone. I know there was much more to be
said but it's a start. I've attached it here should you be interested.
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