[NBLUG/talk] Economist on Open Source
murry at sonic.net
Sat Sep 13 19:57:01 PDT 2003
Bill Kendrick wrote:
>There's a great article over on The Economist's website:
> Microsoft at the power point
> (Governments like open-source software, but Microsoft does not)
> "Why all the fuss? Modern governments generate a vast number of digital files.
> From birth certificates and tax returns to criminal DNA records, the documents
> must be retrievable in perpetuity. So governments are reluctant to store
> official records in the proprietary formats of commercial-software vendors.
> This concern will only increase as e-government services, such as filing a tax
> return or applying for a driving licence online, gain momentum. In Microsoft's
> case, security flaws in its software, such as those exploited by the recent
> Blaster and SoBig viruses, are also a cause of increasing concern."
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