Let's say, put penalty or additional taxes on companies that offer non FOSS solutions on government projects. It doesn't mandate and still allows the use on proprietary solutions but surely these will cut down the companies willing to undertake government IT projects with proprietary solutions. You can also delay payments, required system certifications, or just bury it with tons of paper work(Red Tape). In other word's hurt the competitor, that's my bad guy approach. >_<
The other is giving incentives to companies offering government FOSS solutions such as lower tax, 50% down payment, minimum guarantees, and foot massages! That's my good guy approach, since no one is hurt on the process :)
IHMO, ill recommend the bad guy approach to give it the _tooth_ your seeking and show them the darkside of the force, give em fear...hate...suferring! Death to M$ :P
(last part just for humor, ok.)
On 9/23/06, Jerome Gotangco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/23/06, Charles Yao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>The proposed bill should just focus on the the
> promotion of FOSS and not a mandate to use FOSS.
That itself makes a law useless (and toothless) so if this is the
goal, then a bill is not needed anymore as this is currently being
done by the CICT and even public schools like UP.
Jerome
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