Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 25, 2003 06:53 PM
Sure no one complained about glue being made to a certain standard to withstand certain conditions, but ask them to publish there recipe for making it to win the contract and watch them scream.
Vice Versa no company would have any trouble with the government demanding certain quality levels in software. To demand open source is ridiculous and the examples given in this story don't even come close to comparing, the issue is not that they are setting standards or bars for quality. demanding open source reveals your IP to everyone, many companies spend millions developing there IP so they can gain competitive edge, why should they turn over there hard paid for work to the world for free, demanding open source is the only sure way of ensuring that research and development is reduced and innovation is squashed, why spend to inovate when you can just wait and take what someone else does when they are forced to open there source.
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what a ridiculous story
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 25, 2003 06:53 PMVice Versa no company would have any trouble with the government demanding certain quality levels in software. To demand open source is ridiculous and the examples given in this story don't even come close to comparing, the issue is not that they are setting standards or bars for quality. demanding open source reveals your IP to everyone, many companies spend millions developing there IP so they can gain competitive edge, why should they turn over there hard paid for work to the world for free, demanding open source is the only sure way of ensuring that research and development is reduced and innovation is squashed, why spend to inovate when you can just wait and take what someone else does when they are forced to open there source.
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