[chat] Open Source legislation

[Ken Foskey <foskey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 21:45, Craig Warner wrote:
> Don't whether that to legislate for Open Source could be productive or
> counter productive. 
> Like most legislation, the meaning and purpose could be lost in the
> wording.

I think legislating is a bad thing.

I think that a government edict that Open Source be put on an even base
with commercial software and analysed ON IT'S MERITS nothing more
nothing less.

There is crap commercial software and there is crap Open Source
Software.  The government won't have salesmen knocking on their door
selling Open Source software but the auditors should be questioning.

Why do Governments spend $800 per seat on M$ Word with OpenOffice.org
would have fulfilled the need quite well for 95% of the use out there. 
(Working on the other 5%...)

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Thanks
KenF
OpenOffice.org developer