Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 28, 2003 09:06 AM
Burdens are only unfair if they are applied to a single entity or are not applied accross the board. By requiring only the purchase of hardware that could also be used with viable OSS software, all harware manufaturers would be in the same position. As a result they would have to routinely, as a matter of regular course, support current viable OSS solutions. If you re-read the post, you will find I mentioned (all "viable" alternative OS)these could be identified in an amendment wich should include your standards based criteria. Your premise implies, any bills that require compliant hardware have no chance of passage or of being upheld in the courts. A single, separate bill focused solely on hardware compliance, has a far better chance of being passed and upheld, than these blanket must consider open source bills which are flowery rags filled with grey area loopholes and open to corruption (Yeh, We considered Open source software for our department, but we had one Laptop with a centrino chip on it that isn't supported, so we went with Microsoft for everything."excuse","cash graft check"). Similarly, a single, separate bill focused solely on open document standards should be put forward. "Take it One step at a time!"
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Re:Non OSS compliant Hardware in E-Government
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 28, 2003 09:06 AMIf you re-read the post, you will find I mentioned (all "viable" alternative OS)these could be identified in an amendment wich should include your standards based criteria.
Your premise implies, any bills that require compliant hardware have no chance of passage or of being upheld in the courts. A single, separate bill focused solely on hardware compliance, has a far better chance of being passed and upheld, than these blanket must consider open source bills which are flowery rags filled with grey area loopholes and open to corruption (Yeh, We considered Open source software for our department, but we had one Laptop with a centrino chip on it that isn't supported, so we went with Microsoft for everything."excuse","cash graft check").
Similarly, a single, separate bill focused solely on open document standards should be put forward. "Take it One step at a time!"
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