Hi Obet,
On 12/8/06, Roberto Verzola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
How about no default, decide on a case-to-case basis?
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Dean Michael C. Berris
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mikhailberis AT gmail DOT com
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