Government use of OSS

[Erik Bixby]

"I mean that as haven't most OSS been developed by US citizins."

"While some of the concepts of things like GNU are American and some of
the capital driving development of some projects, as evidenced by Linus'
creation of the original kernel, substantial innovations and advancement
really knows no boundaries and it takes an ignorant and arrogant
American to suggest such a thing."

Couldn't you just say "no?"

On 11/9/05, Victor Odhner <vodhner at cox.net> wrote:
>
> One important "Anti-American" factor is just a question of where
> a country wants its money to go. Do they want to send it all to
> Redmond, or pay their own native talent to customize a product
> that really meets their needs? The second option keeps the money
> in their country, and feeds back into their own economy.
> That's a no-brainer as far as I can see.
>
> I'm sure some people see Microsoft as an embodiment of
> "arrogant American capitalism," and they may tie this in with
> other problems that they like to blame on our country. This
> would make Microsoft appear even uglier abroad than it
> appears to many of us M$-bashers here at home.
>
> But then you add in the "privilege" of reading government
> documents without paying through the nose for software,
> and the idea that FOSS gives them more local control of their
> product, and the argument becomes pretty powerful.
>
> Vic
>
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