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To: antiRepublicrat
OSS and other free software models will win the majority of the time. It could be that is a fact, and that fact makes any fair competition bill look like an OSS-proponency bill because it will naturally advance OSS due to its generally better price/performance ratio.

If you wrote the bill, I have no doubt that it would look like a OSS-proponency bill.

92 posted on 11/12/2003 9:23:40 PM PST by TheEngineer
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To: TheEngineer
If you wrote the bill, I have no doubt that it would look like a OSS-proponency bill.

No matter who wrote it, it would appear so to you. Mine would simply say that the government must buy the lowest-cost software available that fits objectively written criteria for the task at hand. Then I would have RFPs and purchase orders reviewed for being targeted, and reject them if they were.

That goes both ways. If someone were targeting an RFP towards a Linux system and somehow the Microsoft bid came in lower (without using their slush fund), then Microsoft would have to get the contract.

97 posted on 11/13/2003 8:15:04 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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