On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 11:15:42AM +0800, Talim Kalayaan wrote: > I'm speaking of experience. Have you ever experienced this scenario? > > OSS Group: Sir, we are offering this computing solution for $PROJECT , > the government can help us in delivering this to the people. > > Some Guy from an LGU: May kikitain ba tayo dyan? Alam mo na pre..... > > Paranoia? Hardly. :)
I'm curious: what if instead of approaching the LGU as a F/OSS group you approach them as a software solutions group? Charge the same as proprietary software. Pay the same cuts they expect. Make the same money. But use F/OSS all the way. Then use the funds to further F/OSS both locally and internationally. True, it's hardly advocacy. Probably hardly admirable. Definitely Machiavellian. But hey, it might pave the way. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free software GNU/Linux Specialist : GnuPG 0x93B746BE : we refer to freedom, not price. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
