A nice phrase!
By the same metaphor, though, Nutter -- and every other mayor -- uses
"proprietary software" to fix public buildings, cut down public trees
and computerize public offices. They are called "private-sector
contractors" and they are utterly normal, completely familiar to our
Founding Fathers, and absolutely inevitable. That's why the City
Procurement Dept. exists.
Governments have a right and a need to procure goods and services from
private contractors, and private contractors have a right to provide
goods and services to governments. That includes colleges and
universities, of which Penn is one.
So you haven't located any problem -- not, at least, with this metaphor.
It in no way singles out Penn's meeting-facilitation sideline from any
other service by any other provider, which you were hoping to do.
-- Tony West
the problem here, in short, is that nutter's trying to use proprietary
software to run an open source operating system.
(aye. 18th century principles in 21st century language. the founding
fathers were indeed wise beyond their years.)
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