On 7/19/06, Dean Michael Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/19/06, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> why oppose the bill, its not even crafted yet, if it would help to promote
> the use of FOSS then great, if not fine, at least the distinguish gentleman
> tried, right? look at the bright side, once this bill reached the floor for
> deliberation, it will gain publicity and in turn more and more people will
> be aware of FOSS. ain't that great
>
Well, most probably because I'd rather do it some other way -- the
publicity part. See, publicity is the last thing Open Source Software
(I don't care too much about "Free Software" anymore) needs right now:
what it needs is more contributions and more maturity IMO. Word of
mouth works somehow, but the industry and the developers have to pick
it up first and improve it to the point of "marketability" -- more
users of the software would be nice, but that's not what's really
needed right now. Some software might be argued "market ready" like
OpenOffice, Mozilla [Firefox,Thunderbird], GIMP, etc. but the ones the
government needs are the ones that _aren't_ out there yet -- and
that's what needs to get done _first_ before we even start thinking
about publicity.
If the bill is about publicity, then I don't think that's a good way
to spend tax payers' hard earned money -- I'd rather see real issues
get tackled instead of promotion of open source in congress.
My $0.02 wort h.
I think that government should leverage open source software to tackle
its issues.
If government does not get leadership position with open source now
then the who will develop software for its needs? It makes little
sense for me to do that doesnt it? Norway and the U.N. is saying that
asian governments should start funding open source projects. Of course
funding and doing the job itself are two different things but
government shold be involved.
Right now the development initiaitive is left to private enterprise
and individuals and foreign donors.
We have always been good at imitating others anyway.
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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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