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Re: [ossig] vendors encouraged to go open source

How these things typically work is.

1) Some vendor, your friendly borg went in with a cube ship
2) made a presentation on the best nano probe, er I mean buggy software available and tell them "resistance is futile"
3) After being assimilated, the govt department, write out a narrowly define specs that says, "MS Exchange"
4) Some clueless tender officer dutifully type out the spec for "MS exchange"
5) A request for tender is sent out which says "MS exchange" as the specification
6) Tender box is open, everything that says "MS exchange" is taken in, everything else, including one that says Linux, Kolab, etc is discarded
7) Exhorbitant EULA is signed, a site license that says the site will enjoy good pricing if they keep out other software blah blah blah
8) Another site assimilated, the Borg move on to the next target.
9) Hence forth, the site has problem buying other software because the EULA offer seems to good to be passed on.
10) From time to time, vendor came in flashing their MSCE credentials and repeating "Resistance is Futile"

Unless some of us willing to take leave and goes from place to place making presentation and says "resistance is not futile", this is not likely to change.


On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Alawi Abdullah wrote:

i still remember the tender specification for tabung
darah negara web implementation last few month, they
specifically stated they want ms-exchange and some
other ms product.

also the upm web based student info system last month,
they want oracle.

i think they should open the spec, and dont
specifically stated certain product.


--- Dr Molly Cheah <drcheah@pc.jaring.my> wrote:


Dinesh Nair wrote:


On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Dr Molly Cheah wrote:




Program encourages vendors to go open source.



http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/17/HNostep_1.html







let's go one step better: all projects funded by



taxpayer funds (re: govt



IT type projects) should be open sourced.



especially so if it's custom



developed software. anyone in government with the



cojones to implement



this ? :)





Are you kidding? The trend appears to be to charge
for everything. :)

Molly






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