T. Kenji Sugahara wrote: > What's needed is buy-in from the Governor on down. (e.g. a fundamental > shift in thinking). > > Each agency head needs to understand the costs and benefits of > security. They need to be advised of the cost of computer insecurity. Open of the problems in goverment is that they are not open to new ideas, even if the ideas better server the people of the state. The concept of open source is totally unheard of in goverment. As such they, the big cheeses, don't want to get near it. To me open source is the best concept for goverment. Pay for software once, development, then the people could use it forever. If a program is put into the public domain then that adds to the commen welfare of everyone. I have read that the goverment should support business. The question here is are the people more important or companies. people vote but companies donate(bribe) more money. I would donate my patented database GUI system to the projects the state would create for it self using open source licenese. This would reduce maintaince and development cost, increase security, while improving the common good for the average person in the state. Shaun Savage
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