On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
This
same prejudice is what is being propagated by the bill only this time
it's FOR FOSS -- personal beliefs aside, prejudice is prejudice is
prejudice and the people who are for fair play and a level playing
field are for should not stand for any type of prejudice.
You're MISREPRESENTING what the Bill says again, Dean.
This may be true if FOSS was a technology or hardware platform. In which
cazse it would be unwise to tie the future to a technology. But it is
not a technology. It is a BIAS for freedom. It is a way of guaranteeing
certain rights about the software to be used. In that sense, it is NOT
prejudicde, unless you think that mandating freedom is prejudice. In which
case,y ou may as well dump the entire Philippine Constitution since i9t
too mandates freedom.
Really, Dean, I have pointed out your error time and again. But you still
continue to MISREPRESENT the bill. If you were stupid, then I would
undertsand, But you are NOT stupid. I am tghen forced to consider that you
have a more self-serving agenda. Of course I hope I'm wrong, but the
evidence shows otherwise.
The first and foremost criteria for choosing software is whether or
not it fulfills the technical requirements of the user -- if it does,
then the non-functional requirements need to be looked at.
That is EXACTLY what is mandated by the FOSS bill. It clearly allows
proprietary software to be purchased when FOSS cannot do the job. Have you
even read the bill?
God bless!
--[Manny [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Member: Philippine League for Democratic Telecommunications
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Pro-Life Philippines website -- http://www.prolife.org.ph
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