On 4/28/05, Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.....
SOOOOOOO TRUE! I could name a couple of them, but I guess I'll do it in another forum. > > 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. Too inefficient considering Machiavelli's standards (as Machiavelli's stand is that if it works with an great degree of efficiency, it doesn't matter how you get there). The problem is that resorting to such tactics would require you to have very deep pockets, considering that these unscrupulous agents in government are 1) very efficient in corruption practices. 2) very inefficient in prompt payment. 3) very efficient in calling for external tech support. 4) very inefficient in maintaining their own support. 5) there's no guarantee of efficiency. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ 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
