On 9/8/06, Cocoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
that should be the very first thing on such piece of legislation. open code/open file format/open document is more important i think than an open source program. because everyone can access the same piece of information. the dnd may not want a particular source code for encryption/decryption/spying to be blatantly out in the open for national security reasons (which can be based on bsd-code or closed software) for
thats not true. the most popular encryption are open source. everybody knows how rsa, aes and des are implemented. actually the US military is going to adopt commercial software technologies for their own internet called the global information grid.
example but it sure would be great if the document format that they use for their daily office work, can be shared with say, the department of science and technology. interoperability is much much more important in this world where everything IS shared. so it doesn't matter what platform you're on--- linux, windows, osx or whatnut version 9.0. it just works for everybody.
yeah open format for a few years then full open afterwards. i would also like to impose hardware standards too because foreign companies are beginning to lock up the hardware. -- the thing i like with my linux pc is that i can sum up my complaints in 5 items _________________________________________________ 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
