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>Public money should be spent on open (source) software I agree but only if the costs are reasonably comparable. For example if there's a commercial product th
by moonchrome 11y ago
>Public money should be spent on open (source) software
I agree but only if the costs are reasonably comparable. For example if there's a commercial product that would cost 10x to replace then I don't think that's appropriate use of public money.
But if the costs are similar then OSS should always be prefered because it creates new value for other users and while a commercial entity can't necessarily capitalize on that value governments don't need to.
- jimktrains2 11y agoWhat's the cost of having fixing critical bugs 20 years from now when that company's folded?
- moonchrome 11y agoMeh, most software isn't going to be used 20 years from now and the one that will can be licensed with source code - doesn't have to be OSS.
- jimktrains2 11y agoSoftware lasts a good long while in some organizations, even 10 years would have worked in my example (or 5!). You can only have a license with source if you think about it ahead of time.