2008/4/27 Mark Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Interestingly enough, in our efforts with Open Technology Development and
> the Department of Defense (US), the Navy made that determination that OSS
> was COTS - and therefore needed to be considered on an equal footing with
> proprietary solutions for N
P Kishor wrote:
On 4/27/08, Arnulf Christl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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My original sentiment still stands -- if you have the money, but don't
>> have the skills, and don't need it "yesterday," it might be better in the
>> long-term to fund an extension of a good OSS project than to ta
On 4/27/08, Arnulf Christl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >> My original sentiment still stands -- if you have the money, but don't
> >> have the skills, and don't need it "yesterday," it might be better in the
> >> long-term to fund an extension of a good OSS project than to take the
Interestingly enough, in our efforts with Open Technology Development
and the Department of Defense (US), the Navy made that determination
that OSS was COTS - and therefore needed to be considered on an equal
footing with proprietary solutions for Navy acquisitions.
Mark
On Apr 27, 2008, a
[...]
>> My original sentiment still stands -- if you have the money, but don't
>> have the skills, and don't need it "yesterday," it might be better in the
>> long-term to fund an extension of a good OSS project than to take the
>> easy way out and buy a COTS package.
>>
> Absolutely.
It appears
P Kishor wrote:
For the two good examples of OSS that you provide that had well-funded
parents who lost interest in their children, Perl and Python and PHP
and Linux are four that didn't have well-funded parents, but once they
became successful, they attracted well-funded uncles and aunts. Not
fa
I apologize in advance for conflating two different means in your
thoughtful reply, but...
On 4/26/08, Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> P Kishor wrote:
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> > To paraphrase the popular saying, "There are 10 kinds of people in
> > this world -- those who see open source lacking what they
P Kishor wrote:
To paraphrase the popular saying, "There are 10 kinds of people in
this world -- those who see open source lacking what they need and
choose a proprietary software instead and those who see open source
lacking what they need and choose to make it better."
If you have the money th
On 4/26/08, Andre Grobler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I think that is probably another aspect us proprietary experienced people do
> not remember, there's a ton of stuff I don't need in ArcView that I'm paying
> for… What I do need from it unfortunately comes from the whole spectrum of
> i
I think that is probably another aspect us proprietary experienced people do
not remember, theres a ton of stuff I dont need in ArcView that Im paying
for
What I do need from it unfortunately comes from the whole spectrum of
its modules / levels and extensions, which is simply put, not remotely
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