Hi Paolo, On 12/7/06, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 06:12 +0800, Sir John Nueva wrote: > > By nature human do not want to be suppressed; all law that will > prohibit them from freedom to choose is actually counter acting on > this very nature [Consumer right must also be protected]. As we view > the evil empire now at the end if this law is in enacted the heroes > will be our current foe.man-made > The consumer as accorded in the bill is government, by the way. The bill, should it be ratified to law, is government exercising its right to choose. I don't think it's wrong for government to choose based on the principles pointed in the bill.
I believe that it's alright for government to make a choice -- but making a choice for everyone else in government? That's like saying only congress needs to vote for Chacha to get in -- it doesn't make sense, and it certainly is way against the "play fair" notion that government *should* be promoting. Let the choice stay open -- and let government choose on a case to case basis. It's not the lack of a FOSS policy that's making government make bad choices all the time in terms of software procurement: it's the procurement rules. Pushing this FOSS policy is like entertaining a solution that's looking for a problem, instead of actually solving the problems that make the government software procurement practices disgusting. -- Dean Michael C. Berris http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/ mikhailberis AT gmail DOT com +63 928 7291459 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
