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SF Gate on Open Source Government

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tear-down-this-proprietary-wall dept.

Bruce Perens writes: "At the San Francisco Chronicle's SF Gate, Hal Plotkin points to Sincere Choice as the right compromise for an IT renaissance in Government including both Open Source and proprietary software. The article is extremely flattering to yours truly, but a good push in the right direction from a well-respected commentator."

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  1. Re:so as I understand it... by sllort · · Score: 0, Troll

    I propose a third criteria:

    3) The format is free from any patents for reading, writing, or transmitting instances of the format. The format ceases to be open when any of the above patents are granted.

    KWTCMA