Andrew Plato wrote: >I think any legislation that "directs" or "demands" the state to use open >source without equally considering commercial, is a bad idea. Public >entities should weigh both commercial and open products together. And >whatever solution works best should be used. > I think there is merit in the proposition that a civil servant should explain why they are spending public money on a commercial product when a free product might work as well. It is roughly on par with demanding an explanation for why the government just gave away some money to some particular individual. There may well be a sound reason (features, performance, compatibility, support, TCO, etc. etc.) but an explanation should be demanded. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://immunix.com/~crispin/ Chief Scientist, Immunix http://immunix.com http://www.immunix.com/shop/
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