On 7/18/06, Charles Yao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 20:29 +0800, Dean Michael Berris wrote: > The Government is _NOT_ a software development firm, and its function > is to protect the sovereignity of the country and its constituents, > and provide the basic services required by the same constituency that > it serves. The government is not mandated to create software for its > own needs -- that's why we have a public bidding process, and a system > in place for third party contractors to come in and help government > out to deliver the services that the constituency needs through making > software. [snipped] >So what's wrong with the government hiring companies to create open source software to its specifications (or, more likely, modifying exist OSS)? Theres nothing wrong with it. But the argument is that it is not governments role to make software, its primary purpose is to run the country.
You cannot make that distinction with open source software. The government has the tools so why not? -- 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
