Also, while cost is an obvious benefit of F/OSS, it should not be the most critical reason of the bill itself. This is about taking charge of our own infrastructure by our own people, make freely available information accessible and ubiquitous, make it work in our country and cultivate local talent that will make sure this becomes sustainable and lessend the ever growing obvious digital divide in the country.
This country has missed the industrial age, let's not miss the digital age (which is happening now). Jerome On 9/13/06, Jerome Gotangco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unless Section 8 is explained in detail what "full rights and control" means to government, I am thinking twice about this bill. This section is a complete irony of free software licenses, specifically section 5 of GPL v2. It may not be the case if modification and derivatives came from upstream software licensed under PD. Jerome -- Jerome Gotangco Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 0x9E379FC6
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