On 7/17/06, Charles Yao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On the first item, if the Quezon City government starts hiring the programmers to develop software, what will he do with them after development has been finished? You cant expect him to hire all of them to support the software, that would cost too much. Government is overemployed as it is. Secondly, what are the chances that the programmers they hire will actually be competent to do the job? You hire a frim based on their expertise and reputation because you know you will be getting a cetain level of service from them. Secondly, hoew many giovernment initiatives have you seem local or national that have been succesful? All are inefficient, NPC, Transco,SSS, GSIS etc.
Well you are thinking the traditional software development way. Who says they need to find another job when they are finished. There are features to add and features to simplify. needs change. they will always be needed. youd ont need a hundred man team anyway. ten will do. our schools are beginning to use linux. in five years you will see more linux guys. some will not be competent yes but they post their code in the internet. You have not been the receiving end of criticism from MIT gurus have you? thats withering fire from hell. I have seen sun engineers contribute code so bad Linus said its too ugly to live. and other sun engineers agree. incompetent coders will not survive. but i have seen them learn so fast only few coders actually give up. our government have too many secrets and too much separation of powers thats why. our politicians fool us by convincing us its all about personality. but its one big trick and all of them take part in it.
The only thing I can expect the government to provide are the fiber optic lines which we should all be using to have broadband as this is similar to providing roads and bridges etc. But they cannot even install telephone lines, They have to get PLDT to do it for them.
governement should open the ism radio bands so we can have user managed manets.
If biddings are spec driven, then the solution is not for the government to develop the software, its to change the specs, there is no reason why OSS cannot be used in this way. Even if we let government develop the software and they use the same specs that would change nothing.
No way. Remove the specs then they develop according to need. Whats needed today no more. It works, ask IBM. Thats how they do development now. -- things i hate about my linux pc: 1. it takes more than a second to boot up 2. keeps asking about filenames and directories 3. does not remember what i was working on yesterday 4. does not remember all the changes i have ever made 5.cannot figure out necessary settings by itself _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
