On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
Guaranteed access? If it's stipulated in the awarded contract that the code is made available to the government, then _that_ is guaranteed access enough.
That depends on what kind of access is granted. Seeing the code is NOT enough for some. They may also need to be able to modify the code, redeploy, and redistribute. if you have that kind of access, well, you essentially have OPEN SOURCE code.
There are a lot of open source projects that have been abandoned, and that's even worse than proprietary software you paid for that works.
Not necessarily. If someone needs that project badly enough, they can easily take it over, or pay someone to do so.
Cost? Open Source software is not necessarily free --
Yes, but it often is. And even if there are costs, they are usually far lower than the costs of acquiring and updating proprietary software.
RedHat Enterprise Linux -- can the downloaded and built from source, but acquiring support is not cheap (not by any means).
You can download binaries from CentOS. And there are a number of local experts and companies that will be willing to deploy and support it (depending on how it is deployed).
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