Mark,
I am not sure if it is about governemnt supporting OSS (I exclude the
"F" in that) as much as embracing or even considering open source. I am
sure popular opinion is not for money to be splashed around on any and
everything that is OSS. But from a policy standpoint, It would be
interesting to see on what grounds (if any) are OS alternatives disregarded
in favour of proprietary solutions.
cheers
Sri
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Mark Burch <m...@markburch.net> wrote:
> <Bias disclosure> I’m not much of a open source fan but I’m not hostile
> against it either. I’m ambivalent.
>
>
>
> I agree with your initial decision to not include this in the submission.
>
> The government should be supporting innovation and entrepreneurship or
> every kind. If you call out FOSS as a special case, you’re implying it has
> special importance – which I don’t believe it does.
>
> Whether software is FOSS or not is a relatively low level detail that
> doesn’t need to muddy the higher level discussions about entrepreneurship
> and innovation.
>
>
>
> <This is not flame bait. I’m putting forward this view in attempt to
> further the discussion at hand.>
>
>
>
> 2 cents from me.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Burch
>
>
>
> *From:* silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com [mailto:
> silicon-beach-austra...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Elias Bizannes
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 4 August 2009 4:36 PM
> *To:* silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com
> *Subject:* [SiliconBeach] Should the Australian government be supporting
> open source?
>
>
>
> Thanks to those offering feedback on the paper - it's valuable.
>
> Ryan Cross said the following:
> "My suggestion of providing funding to develop open source communities
> didn't seem to be addressed. In the context of this paper it would seem to
> address both the issues of building talent and helping infrastructure. I
> understand if it is chosen to be dropped though. -Ryan Cross 8/3/09 10:47
> PM "
>
> A few people (well, two that I can remember) made the point about the
> government supporting open source. This was one of the suggestions that I
> decided to not include, but I'm willing to accept I'm wrong.
>
> I love open source, but I don't see the link of how supporting open source
> will encourage technology entrepreneurship.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> Elias Bizannes
> http://eliasbizannes.com
>
>
> >
>
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