> But why choose FOSS over commercial software (more appropriately, > Non-FOSS) for all cases by law? Why not just have government choose > which one is cheaper on a case to case basis, and have the third > parties actually bid for providing these software and services to the > government?
This is called AFFIRMATIVE ACTION -- one has to do something to change the defacto default. If you don't, the defacto default stays: M$, since it is already on 99% of govt computers. When one office wants a document, they insist it should be a .doc file. When a new machine is bought, they insist it should contain M$ because they are used to that and are lazy to learn a new OS, etc. Choose: M$ as default, FOSS on a case-to-case basis, or FOSS as default, M$ on a case-to-case basis. Ciao, Obet _________________________________________________ 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
