| Weblog: | The Growing Politicization of Open Source | |
| Subject: | You don't start negotiating with your bottom line | |
| Date: | 2002-08-16 11:38:27 | |
| From: | Jesse E. Tilly | |
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If we were talking about laws that were out of committee and the only thing left to do would be to sign the bill, then I'd agree with Tim and his colleague. However, the California proposal is just that, a proposal. Like every publicly announced law, it will be changed, compromised and modified before it is signed. Software Choice advocates need breathing room. By taking the radical side, we can compromise with things such as "doesn't have to be GPL, but source must be made available through a neutrally approved request process, ala Freedom of Information Act".
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You don't start negotiating with your bottom line
2002-08-16 12:19:49 stend [View]
I agree with the point I think is being made in the second paragraph here. Just as I don't want my tax dollars spent by the government on physical equipment which can only be serviced by the vendor, neither do I want them spent on virtual equipment (software) which can only be serviced by the vendor. Does it need to be Open Source? No, but that isn't a bad starting position, when the desired destination is for the government to receive complete, and permanent, access to the source code for all software which it purchases, with the right to disclose this source to third parties for the purpose of maintaining the software for government use.
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