[ILUG] Government use of OSS

[Thomas Bridge]

2009/3/8 Michael Dever <michael.dever2 at mail.dcu.ie>:

> What if all the major governments all had a meeting, and came up with a
> basic set of IT functionalities that they use, across the board: health,
> transport, in-house, welfare etc etc etc, and pooled their money together to
> get a main system built up, open source. That would save a lot of countries

Given the mess that governments generally make of running their core
services - such as the health system - I'm really not convinced it's a
good idea to let them loose on software development!   It would prove
a distraction, and again, given the history of certain government IT
projects, I doubt it would fix much in the term.

Thomas

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Thomas Bridge
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