Shaun Savage wrote: > Crispin Cowan wrote: > | Open source! I'm serious :) > |... > Also the theory of public commons, supports the concept of the state > improving the common good of all people by adding to the public commons. > Because software placed in the public commons never diminishes the > common good but always adds to it. OSS is a renewable resource for all > the public to benefit from. Exactly! Proprietary custom solutions encourage massive waste. Open source custom solutions encourage the State and the contractors to cooperate to improve existing solutions, reducing waste. Naturally, this is not entirely a panacea. Long term maintenance of complex software is never easy. But open source makes it easier. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX http://wirex.com/~crispin/ Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html
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