Quoting Erwin Olario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
This is interesting.
Mandating opensouce is tantamount to discrimation against proprietary
software. Each software (FLOSS, proprietary, whatever else is out there) has
their own place in the IT ecosystem.
Imho, governments are perfectly entitled to choose whatever solution it
would lean to, as governments are subservient to the interests of their
citizens foremost, and not to the interests of the corporations. The
same types of preferential treatment that we in business can do isn't
really applicable in some cases to governments.
That being said, it would be preferrable if government would at least
start with open standards, and retain the push towards Free / open
source software. If government can best serve the public interest
better using FOSS then that would be better. If proprietary software
would be necessary (such as large-scale RDBMS or some really niche
areas) then let government use it. It's a tough balance between
functionality and preserving the interest of the public...
--
Paolo Alexis Falcone
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