On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 18:50 +0800, Dean Michael Berris wrote: > 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.
I don't see why government should not make a choice for everyone else in government. If it's more advantageous to government's interests, why not? On the basis of fair play, it forces every player in the government software sphere to be equal. If these software companies don't want to play according to the rules, they shouldn't play the game. They'd still be paid for the services and labor they incurred, which are real costs by the way - so why should government pay for artificial costs like onerous per-seat, per-user and per-CPU licenses? > 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. Personally, I'd like to see a fair procurement setup be enacted before the other provisions of the FOSS bill take into effect. Maybe the authors of the FOSS bill can review current procurement laws and take that into consideration? -- Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _________________________________________________ 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
