Saturday, February 27, 2010

Open source and government

Dana Blankenhorn at Zdnet.com bring in his real life experience over many years about the relationship between open source and government:

"But after watching government on every level, in various countries, for over half my lifetime, I can tell you the last thing any government wants is to make a decision its successor can overturn.

Every government knows its time in office is limited. What it needs are stalwart friends and a legacy. Proprietary vendors deliver both, and it is in the nature of open source that these not be provided."


http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5967

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