Hello!
This may be a b.s. reason, but i guess some
co*M*mercial
product*$* bear with them some level of status symbol
-- kind of like owning a BMW(not that so*M*e
product*$* run as smooth) -- for some companies; the
classic form-over-function thing.
One other thing...this has been said many times one
way or another, but the issue of accountability may
play a part, e.g. if so*M*e product*S*
crash/fail/hangs, there is a tangible entity whom they
can call/badger/sue if the problem remains unfixed.
Here in the Phils, there isn't anyone to
call/badger/sue save for a few nwesgroups/mailing
lists(read: PLUG)/e-groups ... well, maybe not sue.
Just my two worthless cents worth
--- "D. S. Sarmiento" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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? .....
>
> oh well....
>
> Denis Sarmiento
> Lockheed Martin - The Aerospace Company
> Running 96 days 7 hours 10 mins - SuSE Linux
> Enterprise S390
>
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:41:55
> Juan Miguel Cacho wrote:
> >En Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:32:14AM +0800, Marvin T.
> Pascual escribio:
> >#_
> >#_ I agree. = )
> >#_
> >#_ Pero, how come our government are still buying
> these very expensive
> >#_ softwares? Since we're in the PLUG, how could
> we motivate the government
> >#_ first to use Open Source Softwares? = )
> >#_
> >#_ Para Sa Bayan! = )
> >
> >I'm afraid to say this, but i suspect one of the
> answers to your question
> >is... kickback. The other is ignorance... well, the
> lack of awareness that
> >there exists an alternative to proprietary
> software. But mostly I think
> >Kickback ;->
> >
> >--
> >Juan Miguel Cacho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Philippines
> >...the poor count their blessings, the affluent
> count their calories.
> >
>
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