** Sabi ni Denis noong Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:23:19 -0700
> yes. old fashion material greed....its all over the place in government.....
>
> sadly, it is discouraging that these guys shuns away from Linux and Open Source
> despite being free or cheap.....but bec. they cant make money out of it unlike
> the tons of money they could make from commercial software companies who gives
> them kickbacks in exchange for a government contract........can open source
> software beat the smoke out of that? .....
I certainly don't want to encourage corruption, but one way to do it would be
to charge fairly hefty consulting fees. What a group might do is offer the
package -- Linux + apps + networking installation + the whole range of
consulting services. Let me stop there, and let the dirtier minds take over.
Mabuhay.
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