On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
At any rate, I still maintain that this bill (however good looking it may seem) is a needless headache for the legislative office of _any_ congressman. I still stand by my (personal) view that the Philippines produce quality FOSS first, then think about using _just_FOSS_ later. Let's make software that's of high enough quality first then worry about FOSS later.
That makes no sense. The two are NOT mutually exclusive. We can do both at thje same time. To saty we should delay one to promote the other is really engaging in a logical fallacy. There's no reason why BOTH cannot be pursued concurrently. There is, however, a good reason why we should not delay FOSS adoption in government: we're wasting money on propiretayr, overpriced solutions that often sacrifice security and trap government agencies with vendor lock-in.
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