** Reply to message from "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:51:44 -0500 (EST)
> (if you're tired of this thread, well, there's always > the delete key.) > > as a followup to an earlier posting regarding the > peruvian congressman who tried to enact a bill to promote > open source software in the national IT infrastructure, there > was one *important* point that may have been missed. > > that bill in no way prevented the consideration or > purchase of microsoft software. what the bill *did* was to > lay down some basic requirements for software that would > be purchased by the peruvian government. it didn't name > any names, it simply stated what was and was not acceptable > in terms of general software attributes. > > the last several emails got me thinking about this, and > i sat down and dashed off a short piece that i'd been > thinking about for a while. you'll see how this comes > back to the peru/microsoft issue at the end. basically, > here's my take on the criteria one should use in evaluating > whether or not to purchase/adopt a vendor's software package. >snip> You aren't alone, Rob. In fact, somebody by the name of Bruce Perens has been thinking a lot about this. Check out his site at: http://www.sincerechoice.org/ jb http://www.sincerechoice.org -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
