Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > No, it's not a silly idea. Dean Baker, the Co-Director the Center for Economic > and Policy Research, has proposed for the U.S. government to establish a > Software Developer's Corps. For $2 billion per year, it could fund about > 20,000 > developers to make open source software. Much of that software would be > directly > usable by local, state, and federal governments and thus pay back some, all, > or > more of the investment (Dean estimates more). In addition, the general public > also benefits directly. > > http://www.cepr.net/publications/windows_2005_10.pdf
Given the current balance of power in the USA government, I assume this proposal is aimed at >= 2008 ;-) John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
