In www.inq7.net letter, Orlando Andico wrote: > The government should impose the use of open-source in government > agencies. After all, these agencies aren't going to become revenue > centers anytime soon. Let private industry like Mr. Ng buy Microsoft > software and provide Microsoft-centric services. That is not the > government's purview. http://www.inq7.net/inf/2003/aug/09/inf_5-1.htm
which was in reaction to article by William Ng: http://www.inq7.net/inf/2003/aug/08/inf_38-1.htm I guess most people in this forum would sympathize with idea that RP gov't should impose (or at least strongly encourage) on RP gov't the use of free software in RP gov't agencies. But how doable is this given the current players and balance of powers in gov't. Which gov't entity if any would have the power to impose this? The article of William Ng implies that there is some kind of debate inside gov't as to open source in gov't. Is this true? Who is debating who? Can anyone shed light on who all the relevant debatants in are. All I know is that ASTI is one player (the only one?) that is a proponent of open source, and I assume by extension, its parent DOST. If so, is DOST/ASTI powerful enough to bring the rest of gov't around? It seems that ASTI is more of a "research" type group, doing nice and interesting things, but does it have enough power/influence/money? How did other countries do it (the ones with strong gov't policy imposing or encouraging use of open source in gov't)? Probably a non-scientific sample, but the few gov't agencies that we have to deal with (NTC and some others) all seem to be budding Microsoft/etc. shops, busily learning asp/etc., judging from their web servers. I assume that in absence of direction from central gov't otherwise, that is the default no-brainer platform choice. Since Pres. Nemenzo "imposed" open source on UP from the top more than half a year ago, has any other gov't entity or school since then followed that lead? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
