CCAGW Misreads Mass. Policy, Open Standards Generally

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 1, 2003 @01:12PM from the amateur-clowns-vs.-professional-clowns dept.

mhrivnak writes "The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste made this press release blasting the Massachusetts policy decision to move to Open Source. They explain why Linux is a 'monopoly,' how this policy is 'socialist' and why 'The old Soviet Union could not have done this any better.' The CCAGW has been previously informed about the benefits of open source software in government. Tell them what you think!" The CCAGW is at least not completely one-dimensional; the group is also opposed to mandatory embedded snoopware. Maybe they don't realize that conventional closed-source software has big costs worth avoiding.

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Re:In Soviet Taxachusetts... by stratjakt · 2003-10-01 13:22 · Score: 5, Insightful

Umm, no, government waste is when you make policies that impede the ability to use the best and cheapest tool for a certain task, and wind up having to pay someone to reinvent the wheel for you.

Government using linux, good. Government forcing the use of linux and ignoring sound procurement procedures, bad.

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Re:Kinda makes you wonder... by Foofoobar · 2003-10-01 15:23 · Score: 5, Insightful

The truly hilarious thing is that they are running Apache for a web server. |Makes me think they have no idea what open source really is.

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