On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
Savings? You do see that using FOSS will require support which the government still has to pay for -- just the same as acquiring and using proprietary software. I for one would not want to run a government that tried to do everything by itself and not outsource the non-core services to local, qualified, and accountable third party providers.
Well, DOST 7 went OpenBSD, and they are more secure becaus eof it. And it cost them a whole lot less than if they went with proprietary software. And the BSD servers require very little maintenance. Just guess how much the government would have saved if it went proprietary...
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