>>Bill or no bill, government or no government, FOSS is here to stay, so I think much of this speculation crap is moot.
I agree. FOSS is here to stay. F/OSS has always been a good alternative to proprietary software. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Chua Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 12:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [plug] Re: Open source bill - it's about time Zak wrote: >Bill or no bill, government or no government, FOSS is here to stay, so I >think much of this speculation crap is moot. Think about it this way, if FOSS is truly cheaper and better then why can't a FOSS provider win a bid against proprietary software fair and square without the help of the bill? If you say that the problem is because the bidding system is rigged, then this bill will not fix the situation. Rigging will still occur except this time there will be less candidates for the bidding (proprietary software will mostly be excluded except in "extraordinary circumstances") and because the amount of choices are lessened, it is possible that the best choice which would have been non-FOSS is not available for consideration. This is against the taxpayer's interests. Why not just ask the government to standardize on Linux for some important areas of their operations and see if they can make it work instead of a blanket bill that says "FOSS" has to be used everywhere? If the experience is good then it can be adopted more widely, if it turns out the government cannot effectively use Linux, then it would not have committed irreversibly to a major mistake. We want to see concept of FOSS compete on its own strengths and not be given an unfair advantage because some leftists decide that it sounds like a good thing and try to push it on the rest of us. _________________________________________________________________ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.com/ _________________________________________________ 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
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