On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, kilopascal wrote: > Here is an interesting statement from the article: > Governments have been embracing open-source software as a way to cut costs > and sometimes also to break free of a U.S.-dominated software market. > Open-source software such as Linux may be freely modified and redistributed > without the legal and financial constraints of proprietary software from > Microsoft, Oracle and others. Althought this could be true for some poor countries the real reason why governments like to switch to a non proprietary system is to avoit to have to trust the producer, that could, willing ly or involutarily put some bacdoors, flaws or othe unsecurities. Also un some jurisdicions a software for wich the user has not the source code is not lega for certain purposes, such handling of sensitive or classified dato, or just for accounting . > > It would be nice if someone could modify Application software to metric > friendly versions and distribute it in metric countries as a better > alternative to non-metric friendly FFU based software.
No problem with open source software ! > > Maybe this is the opportunity where metric can overtake FFU. I hope so! >
