Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 01, 2003 06:16 PM
Great work Tony,
You forgot to mention, using proprietary document formats amount to a "government document access surtax" that must be paid by each taxpayer who wants to communicate with their elected officials/agencies. What's worse is the double whammy effect it creates. Not only is the government sending tax payer dollars out of the community for software licenses, but each and every taxpayer must also send a portion of their net income out of the community for licenses that enable them to read these proprietary documents.
Any financial impact studies that would leave this surtax out would be seriously skewed.
Logic follows, the benefits realized by switching to Free Open Source software would also have a double whammy effect. In addition to the government savings you mentioned, Each taxpayer would in effect get a tax reduction. Increasing their disposable income that could also be spent/kept in the community.
You also didn't mention the importance of assuring that future hardware purchases should be compatable (supported) with any alternate Free Open Source applications/platforms they might choose to use. All these efforts are moot if it won't run on their hardware!
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Government Document Access Surtax
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 01, 2003 06:16 PMYou forgot to mention, using proprietary document formats amount to a "government document access surtax" that must be paid by each taxpayer who wants to communicate with their elected officials/agencies. What's worse is the double whammy effect it creates. Not only is the government sending tax payer dollars out of the community for software licenses, but each and every taxpayer must also send a portion of their net income out of the community for licenses that enable them to read these proprietary documents.
Any financial impact studies that would leave this surtax out would be seriously skewed.
Logic follows, the benefits realized by switching to Free Open Source software would also have a double whammy effect. In addition to the government savings you mentioned, Each taxpayer would in effect get a tax reduction. Increasing their disposable income that could also be spent/kept in the community.
You also didn't mention the importance of assuring that future hardware purchases should be compatable (supported) with any alternate Free Open Source applications/platforms they might choose to use. All these efforts are moot if it won't run on their hardware!
"BAN THE GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT ACCESS SURTAX"
ME....
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