Hi Dean. > Hi Sir Obet,
Obet lang pls... We are not members of a round table... > > Hmmm... Should the government make a choice by law? Or shouldn't > government play fair and do it on a case to case basis? In fact, today, the law and govt rules require that among bids which meet specifications, the bidding committee of a government agency should choose the LOWEST BID. This is a general rule and not case-to-case. Nobody questions this policy. We FOSS advocates are simply saying that government agencies should choose the free (in both sense of the word) software from commercial one, as long as the former meets specifications. > Although FOSS is not any one piece of technology, it certainly refers > to technology -- specifically software -- licensed under a FOSS > License. Yes of course, software is technology. But when we talk of FOSS vs commercial software, our interest is really in the licensing and not the technology itself. BSDI and FreeBSD (or RedHat and Fedora) are basically the same technologies, but we differentiate between them because of their licenses. So. choosing FOSS over commercial software is not a choice of technology, but of licensing models. The bill does not force agencies to choose Linux over BSD, Minix, FreeDOS, or other "technologies". Greetings, Obet Verzola _________________________________________________ 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
