[HanoiLUG] [Fwd: [ksd-vn] FOSS-­LINUX SYSTEMS IN VIETNAMESE NGOs]

[Nguyen Vu Hung]

David Tremblay さんは書きました:
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> De: Luis Gomez J <l.gomez.juanes at gmail.com>
> À: ksd-vn at cairo.anu.edu.au
> Sujet: [ksd-vn] FOSS-­LINUX SYSTEMS IN VIETNAMESE NGOs
> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:12:08 +0700
>
> Education for Development is the first NGO in Ho Chi Minh City to have
> an implementation program for Free OpenSource-Linux systems in the
> office. We believe the considerations we made as a part of that
> decision apply equally to other NGOs:
>
>        •      Security
>
>        •      Reliability/Stability
>
>        •      Open standards and vendor independence
>
>        •      Reduced reliance on imports
>
>        •      Developing local software capacity
>
>        •      Piracy, IPR, and WTO
>
>        •      Localization
>
>   
The authors say they *believe* in those points.
Because FOSS is still in its beginning evolution, noone
can say that FOSS is more secure, more reliable, more stable than
closed source softwares.

If anyone want to start a new debate I will be very happy :D

Btw, the authors of this papers refer to the following topics

1) Reduced duplication of effort
2) Building upon the work of others
3) Better quality control
4) Reduced maintenance costs

but they give no evidence.

IMO,

1) and 2) are much similar.
3) is no wrong but it needs explaination:
FOSS has it own quality control process ( no spec, distributed 
development and test,
open peer review, short release, modulization ... ).
4) is not so true. It depends on the resources we have.

BR,

VH