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Government watchdog group warns of open source expense
From:Joe Klemmer
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:46:49 -0400

Government watchdog group warns of open source expense
Tue July 20, 3:27
roblimo

You might not think that Citizens Against Government Waste would be
playing up the cost benefits of proprietary software for use by
government, but the nonpartisan, nonprofit organization did just that
with a recent press release.

http://www.newsforge.com/print.pl?sid=04/07/19/2231236

[There's a _lot_ of things I could say about this but I'll boil it down
to one...  The points they make are not unreasonable but they are not
working with all the facts and therefor have come up with a conclusion
that is not quite representative of the reality of open source
software.  -  jjk]

-- 
Joe Klemmer 
Unix System/Network Administrator & Ad Hoc Programmer