Unfortunately, we are lacking a lot in the Standards department. Ang hirap pagusapin ang mga databases ng bawat ahensya.
Re pushing for "plain linux and not a specific distro". That isn't also possible. Discrimination against proprietary sofwtare pa din yun eh.
On 7/7/06,
Charles Yao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quoting Erwin Olario <>:
> 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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I agree that it is preferrable for the government to use open source as a
way to better serve public interests. However, by outright preferring
opensource software, that would be discrimination. What is best is to impose
open standards and have the proprietary software companies follow the
standards like what has happened in the case of microsoft and odf. That
would be a better solution. By law, the government cannot simply mandate
open source software, that would be capricious on its part. Even if we do
not agree with proprietary software, their rights are protected by law as
well.
Charles
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