I support the bill then. FOSS projects will be focused on services. One problem that I think we may encounter is that there is a shortage of FOSS experts or developers in the country. This may result in lack or absence of competent FOSS. And proprietary software will still be used in most of the government projects.
Are there enough FOSS companies who have been dealing with the government already? Even without this bill i believe government projects can be won by FOSS. I have a chance to see a 50M government contract about to be won by FOSS but at the last minute two FOSS experts in this proprietary company have resigned for greener pasture. The company backed down, the project was awarded to the competitor using M$. _________________________________________________ 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
