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The governments themselves also stand to benefit.The governments themselves also stand to benefit.Posted Sep 16, 2003 11:21 UTC (Tue) by Peter (guest, #1127)In reply to: The governments themselves also stand to benefit. by bignose Parent article: Governments like open-source software, but Microsoft does not (Economist)
Unmentioned in the article is what benefit the governments themselves will see from going with free software. I saw the sentence you quoted as the high point of the article. Because so many people seem to miss the point that, if proprietary software loses marketshare, it does not mean that X number of IT people are therefore out of a job. It means X number of IT people are redistributed from writing code in a software house to writing bespoke software and deploying it for individual clients - and related services. You like workin' nine to five (ha!) churning out proprietary software? Tough, your job might have to change with the times. But it's not like free software, even if it approaches 100% market penetration, will ever spell an end to all careers in computing - and I wish people could understand this point. And I thought the article did a good job pointing that out.
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