Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > spent in a different manner. Even if $3 million of that $5 million is > still spent on commercial software, you could do wonders with that extra > $2 million - such as hiring 20 top-notch programmers (for $100,000 a > year) > for writing open-source software for the government, or giving 200 > people (!) a 50,000 shekel grant to work on open-source software of their > preference. > or giving 2000 third-year C.S. / engineering undergraduates 5000 sheqels discount on tuition if they choose an israelly-related OS project as their final workshop.
or treating some goverment-directed OS projects as MECHOYAVUT HEVRATIT that entitles you to PERACH (this actually may cost very little) -- -- regards +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Guy Baruch , Plasma Laboratory, Weizmann Institue. + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + phone: 972-8-934-2211 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've got something in your pocket that says, "In God We Trust" on it, please send it to your local church where it belongs, before it's too late! ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
