Heya Orly! :-) On 2/8/06, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So trying to advocate F/OSS for some 500M peso government project is so > laughable because it's just plain impossible. And the bleeding hearts in > this list who disagree with me, say the things they do because they haven't > seen how it is (or they refuse to see).
I actually _won't_ disagree on you with this one; however I'd like to point out that the current /root of the Philippine Republic is only temporal, and even that will eventually be replaced by yet another system administrator. Let us only hope that this next /root will be more competent, more sensible, and more geeky than the previous :P. Thus all the Philippines' FTBFS bugs and RC shenanigans will be exchanged in favor of fast and furious release cycles and MacBooks for all. Only then, I daresay, will a government borne on the wings of FOSS will emerge. > Don't mistake me, I don't think the country is hopeless. I do think the > government is hopeless. But there are many, many ways to use F/OSS to help > the country, e.g. those 3rd class municipalities could certainly use F/OSS, > because since they have no budget to steal, they won't be averse to a > low-cost, high-labor IT solution. On a more serious note, this is quite the reality of it; take Spain, or Mexico, or Munich for example. Will any municipality sponsor me for Debconf6? :P Cheers, Zakame -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D
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