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www.unixsucks.com:
But I can.
Looking at the amount of hate to Windows in this message board I can see that single open source fanatic would be able to produce huge amount of propaganda and bearing in mind that there are no many Windows lovers out there - the result is obvious.
KernelPanic:
Don't be silly, that cannot happen on a governmental level, maybe in some crappy country but not in most. Also if a countries agencies cold do what they wanted, what on earth would be the point in having a centralised government at all. Countries would fall apart.
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by www.unixsucks.com:
So if Microsoft is so evil in using it's monopolistic practicies, please explain to me how fair is decision of some countries to force their agencies to use open source software?
Is not it unfair as well? Is not it a monopolistic approach as well?
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I think it is very fair. Since I am a tax payer I believe it is the right thing to do because it saves money and it garantees no funny business is going on under the covers. I would like to see my country adopt similar policies. Use open source where possible, but use proprietary if there is no open source alternative. In fact if M$ is willing to provide my government with the source code to every application my government buys (and there is no alternative) then I have no beef.
www.unixsucks.com:
Don't you understand that the mandated to use open source.
They have not said - "please explore different alternatives and choose the right one based on your needs/money etc", they said "you must use open source regardless what" which is not the same thing.
KernelPanic:
That's the nitty gritty of the way a country is run. Once the big fish make their decision then that's it. Everything you think you know is wrong. The system is all powerful
[ August 26, 2002: Message edited by: Tux ]
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