On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 20:29 +0800, Dean Michael Berris wrote: > The Government is _NOT_ a software development firm, and its function > is to protect the sovereignity of the country and its constituents, > and provide the basic services required by the same constituency that > it serves. The government is not mandated to create software for its > own needs -- that's why we have a public bidding process, and a system > in place for third party contractors to come in and help government > out to deliver the services that the constituency needs through making > software.
So what's wrong with the government hiring companies to create open source software to its specifications (or, more likely, modifying exist OSS)? _________________________________________________ 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
