On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Roberto Verzola wrote:
Your advice is sound for software engineering, but it's a recipe for
failure in many other situations, especially social ones, like
If an engineer (software, hardware, etc.) is asked: how long will it take you
to finish this job? I imagine most would make a mental estimate of the actual
time they think it would take, then add 50% or double (triple?) that, and
that's what they'd tell their boss/client. Same with cost estimates.
(Proposed bills also, I would imagine...).
Touche'! Alll the more reason to support the FOSS bill as it is!
The real genius of the bill is how it recognizes the value of a software
license. By making it part of the standards by which software solutions
are judged, the bill finally makes government consider the implications
and value of the freedoms offered by FOSS licenses. And the bill remains
technology-neutral while doing so.
Genius.
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