Last paragraph

Last paragraph

Posted Oct 22, 2004 22:54 UTC (Fri) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270)
In reply to: Last paragraph by gowen
Parent article: Why open source is unsustainable (Financial Times)

You're both wrong. He's saying that governments should pass regulations that favor open source software as a general class. He doesn't imply that any particular open-source product couldn't be the best choice for a government, but simply that the government should choose on the merits of the software, not on its business model. [Merits would presumably include things like quality, support, viability of continued support, and other issues that would interact with the business model underlying the software.]

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