Chris Sherlock wrote:
I suppose this seems like a fair enough answer... I guess you see
software more as an infrastructure that the govt should maintain and
develop. I'm still not so sure...
What I *do* think, however, is that governments should make it
compulsory for software companies (and peripheral companies, in
particular!) to open their code. Do you know the number of times I've
had to scrap or make do with 2nd-best because I couldn't see the
source code of some crappy product???? :) I guess that's why I only
run Linux now (especially now I've worked out CUPS and Samba).
I don't agree with this - governemnts dictating things about software
and hardware have so far only given lots of negative results. The
goverment should require that things it buys have open interfaces (and
this applies to both hardware and software). This gives you a good
balance and keeps most of the lobbyists from paying attention and
screewing things royaly up.
Chris
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