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Article #62917Re: US Government: How Many $ for Software?
From: Arthur Kreitman
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 00:00
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In article <emNu3c3w165w@ancot.com> garyp@ancot.com (Gary Porter) writes: > > I'm trying to figure out how much of the taxpayers' money > > could be saved if the federal government were to buy software licenses > > less and use free software more. > > > > A practical example: > > > > Suppose Microsoft elects in 1996 to release DOS 7.0, and suppose the > > federal government has one million PCs for which the individual agencies > > elect to purchase an upgrade at, say, twenty dollars each. Wouldn't it > > be wiser to sponsor some organization (such as the FSF) for some fraction > > of that twenty million dollars to create something called FreeDOS that could > > replace proprietary DOSs? What would happen it that FreeDOS would be incompatible in many small ways for many years. The productivity loss would make the $20,000,000 look like peanuts. -- ---- Art Kreitman Congruent Corporation artk@congruent.com 110 Greene Street 212-431-5100 New York, New York 10012 fax 219-1532
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,54add299d92ae760 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: artk@Congruent.COM (Arthur Kreitman) Subject: Re: US Government: How Many $ for Software? Date: 1995/04/04 Message-ID: <ARTK.95Apr3202909@cc-color1.Congruent.COM> X-Deja-AN: 100837915 sender: news@Congruent.COM references: <dmarshalD69q6q.CMJ@netcom.com> <emNu3c3w165w@ancot.com> organization: Congruent Corporation; New York, NY newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss