On 9/23/06, Dean Michael Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > are we better than them because we chose the more pragmatic > proprietary software? You think using FOSS in government is about being better than other countries? > did we gain advantage over them because we can > focus our resources on other more important things than trying to > prove that we are better then the software giants like MS? You think using FOSS in government is about gaining advantage over other countries?
isnt it? its about power. about being able to do something effectively. thats the same reason why i am in the foss business. i dont understand why we dont seem to demand this from our government. our neighbors do research like crazy to gain advantage. they export more rice than we do they have more factories than we do. i refine my software everyday to keep my windows based competitors at bay. when they wait for their suppliers to fix a minor bug i create an alternative. isn't that what we all do?
Please keep it relevant. You're not adding to the "intelligence" of this thread.
oh please. the distinction between whats technical and whats not and whats off topic and whats not went out the window when we started discussing the bill. im going to stay away from this thread now. count me out of the consensus construction. i have a lot of testing to do. -- the thing i like with my linux pc is that i can sum up my complaints in 5 items _________________________________________________ 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
