This article's assertion of a Republic's necessary use of open source software and open standards as means to reduce single points of failure, increase security by having the source code for support/debug, enhanced local talent that can alter and support it, and all this naturally required by the very definitions of democratic public policy is brilliant and fundamentally sound.

This article is astoundingly perceptive, authoritative and literate, regardless of the authorship speculation ( "...purportedly from Peruvian Congressman David Villanueva Nuņez to Microsoft Peru..." ).

I certainly also believe in proprietary software and it's industries and companies, but this is a brilliant example of when commercial vending to public institutions may not be appropriate or desirable. (It also takes to task Microsoft's obvious attempt to steamroller an entire government with specious, bizarre rhetoric. They may have picked on the wrong guys...)

It isn't often that you get to read something so inherently accurate and communicative.

Is there such a thing as a Politico-Monk? I'd upvote this one on this issue...

In reply to Re: A Peruvian Congressman counters MS FUD by tjh
in thread A Peruvian Congressman counters MS FUD by dws

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