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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. BRUCE PERENS IS A COCKGOBBLER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  2. The best government by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    is NO government. Unless you happen to LIKE 50% of your income going directly into it's pocket. If government could be OSS (free as in beer and free as in speach) without restricting people and robbing it's citizens of all of their wealth, then we would be right at the top. Right now we steal money from me and pay people to sit at home and not work, that is NOT right, and if we model the new government after OSS we must be VERY careful.

    One thing is for sure, communism doesn't work. Maybe Microsoft is not as bad as you think.

  3. 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