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The response to that is surely very simple. "Since government has absolutely no faith in community development we have loaded the contract with sufficient marg
by neilwilson 9y ago
The response to that is surely very simple.
"Since government has absolutely no faith in community development we have loaded the contract with sufficient margin to employ lots of people who will specifically maintain the code used in the project.
Which is precisely what any closed source developer has to do.
But by supporting this bid the government will make government maintained code available for free to any other enterprise that wants to use it and gain the benefit of any development they may choose to do to that code.
This eliminates duplication across the economy and makes the economy more efficient overall.
PS. I hope you none of you are using Android phones"
- dTal 9y agoExactly this, though word it more nicely and in such a way that the benefits obviously accrue to them, rather than the more abstract "economy". They want to treat it exactly the same as a commercial offering, so you should too. Just note that the licence you endeavour to develop the software under lends them additional flexibility to, for example, hire other support workers outside of your contract.