On 7/18/06, Dean Michael Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/17/06, manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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...
>
Yeah, well DOST has employees that maintain the OpenBSD systems -- the
employees cost money to keep. Although I do understand that the
I dont know. Are they paid much more than the other employees. Maybe
they still use typewriters. I wonder how many positions would have
been lost if they computerised everything.
savings come at the price of accountability and "someone to blame when
it all goes wrong", it does make sense on a case to case basis. But
saying _all_ software that the government will require should be open
source is taking it a bit too far -- and I'm just being pragmatic
about it.
At the moment, not all the open source solutions make good enough
software for government needs -- eLGU project, tried but didn't
impress me, no open source traffic management/monitoring system (yet),
is this about network traffic?
no open source weather forecasting software (yet), no open source
i think there is one already.
seismic activity tracking software (yet), not even good enough open
source geographical information systems at par with ArcSoft and IDRISI
whats involved in a gis? is it graphics? there are many ways to do this.
i observed that most of the issues are caused by a lack of ui. Like
most other windows based software out there the data model part is not
a problem. its already out there. otherwise a little reverse
engineering will not hurt.
one ui to bind them all.
just to name a few. Being pragmatic about it says: okay, let's use
proprietary software while there aren't any cheaper alternatives for
us the meantime -- now when someone else creates open source versions
or alternatives, then perhaps we can asses them then.
of course it takes time.
--
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
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