SF Gate on Open Source Government 134
Bruce Perens writes: "At the San Francisco Chronicle's SF Gate, Hal Plotkin points to Sincere Choice as the right compromise for an IT renaissance in Government including both Open Source and proprietary software. The article is extremely flattering to yours truly, but a good push in the right direction from a well-respected commentator."
ROI (Score:3, Informative)
The Internet/Computing industry gave $16,138,743 [opensecrets.org] in the 2002 election cycle. If there is one thing that these people understand, it's Return On Investment.
Re:so as I understand it... (Score:3, Informative)
Not quite...the format is not mandated, just the openness of the format. So, for example, if Microsoft were to produce full documentation (available free of charge) for the
Re:Excellent strategy (Score:4, Informative)
And you credit me with more political sophistication than I have, so far.
Bruce
Re:I don't understand (Score:2, Informative)
You'd be surprised how many companies file patents for just this purpose. The larger your "patent portfolio", the easier it is to get cross-licensing contracts with other companies that have patents you want.
Re:PDF"s (Score:4, Informative)
Thanks
Bruce
Re:Possibles issues...? (Score:2, Informative)
Mind you, the vast vast vast majority of documents generated in any office (government, law, or otherwise) are simple memos, notes, and casual correspondance. Standardizing on a DTD for official documents isn't too insane, and standardizing on
That's all blue sky though. Most offices don't have enough techno savvy to understand what rtf or SGML is, let alone implement it in a uniform fashion.