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The Growing Politicization of Open Source
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Linux and Politics |
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2002-08-18 07:08:28 |
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jsotack
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Response to: Linux and Politics
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You can legislate
"- Free access to public information by the citizen.
- Permanence of public data. - Security of the State and citizens."
Without legislating the end solution. How many government orgainizations have you seen distribute information ONLY in a format that requires expensive SW to view.? There ar always HTML, PDF.
Hence, the requirement could be that certain types of information be distributed in a way (of the orgainisations choosing) that uses a free viewer.
In thie case where maintainance is a concern, you simply need to be able to convert to a different format. I suppose you could have a reqiurement that the generating information be robostly save information in an open format (xml?).
JOhn
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