Posted by: Jonathan Bartlett
on July 25, 2003 10:52 PM
"I didn't think that it was implicit in the title that it was better."
I think this article is simply to say, if a government decides to use open-source only, that's not a free market problem. It may be a good or bad decision, but it is not counter to the free market.
Now, I can think of several reasons why government _should_ use only open-source products, but that's not on subject for the story. They generally deal with the ability for the government to choose a separate supporting agency or change vendors at any time. With proprietary software, it's very difficult to do this.
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Re:Why?
Posted by: Jonathan Bartlett on July 25, 2003 10:52 PMI think this article is simply to say, if a government decides to use open-source only, that's not a free market problem. It may be a good or bad decision, but it is not counter to the free market.
Now, I can think of several reasons why government _should_ use only open-source products, but that's not on subject for the story. They generally deal with the ability for the government to choose a separate supporting agency or change vendors at any time. With proprietary software, it's very difficult to do this.
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