[ Thanks to E5Rebel
for this link. ]
“The Guardian has published a very curious piece today,
entitled: ‘A Call for Caution on Open Source’. It concludes:“The UK coalition government should take considered note that
the procurement of open source software buys neither governments
nor taxpayers a cost- and indigestion-free lunch.“Leaving aside the fairly obvious fact that nobody had claimed
anything of the sort, it’s worth exploring some of the thinking
behind this post.”
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