On 9/22/06, Dean Michael Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Paolo!
> >
> > Sorry, but a policy statement should be guided first and foremost by
> > the objectives. Setting policy not aligned with any objectives is a
> > poor way of planning and running government.
>
> Duh. The objectives are clearly stated if you even bothered to read the
> rationale. One of them is to avoid vendor lockin, another is to foster
> the local IT industry, etc.
>
Which is precisly my point: if these were the objectives, then how
does making FOSS mandatory achieve these goals again? Government can
choose to use only RHEL or SuSE on all the systems -- and they're
again locked into a single vendor. Using FOSS only in government will
not directly translate to fostering the local IT industry.
Sana tama ang aking pagkaintindi...
Di ba kung pumili ka ng RHEL or SuSE, bagamat may bayad ang mga naturang serbisyo hindi ba't ligtas ka pa rin sa vendor lock-in dahil kung ayaw mo nang mag-avail ng subscription sa Red Hat o Novell dahil sa kaya mo nang wala ang kanilang technical support, puede ka namang makagamit ng CentOS o katumbas (o kaya'y derivative) na Linux Distro o kaya ipagpatuloy ang paggamit ng RHEL kahit walang subscription na kung saan hindi mo na kailangang gumastos pa ng malaki sa switching cost?
Ang alam ko rin kapag open source ang ginamit na technology (tama ba ung term?) gaya ng Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc.. mas madali at mas mura na magswitch from one distro to another so sa ganong lagay, walang vendor lockin dahil may choice kang lumipat ng vendor (or distro) na hindi mo kailangang magbuhos ng malaking halaga.
I can easily be corrected when I'm wrong. :)
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