On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
Yeah, well DOST has employees that maintain the OpenBSD systems -- the employees cost money to keep.
It doesn't cost much more to maintain BSD systems than proprietary systems. Itr usually costs far less because you need fewer administrators and it requires less maintenance.
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.
You've got it backwards. The more pragmatic way is to say we should use open source software everywhere we can NOW, and then retain or use proprietary software in the meantime in places where we can't use open source software. The government will save more that way. It can't afford to keep throwing money away on overpriced pro[prietary systems that really don't work that well either.
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