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[Matthew Terenzio]

I agree, but this awakening may not happen all at once or even fully 
within our lifetime. And I don't think it is cost effectiveness that 
will drive the awakening but a crippling breakdown from an attack on 
Microsoft machines across the world, leaving a large part of the  
business world helpless for a few hours or days. Then, world leaders 
will unite, and mandate Open Source as not an option but as a  world 
security mandate. Back to sleep. zzzzzz
On Jun 29, 2004, at 6:53 PM, Tim Gales wrote:

>
> I just don't get it.
>
> Why would companies who are being held
> hostage by closed source consulting
> companies want to take on the new burdens
> of creating super explicit level of
> service requirements (sometimes down
> to the module level) and reams and
> reams of technical specifications;
> and then later create acceptance test
> plans which cover minutia.
>
> Why not redirect that effort toward
> creating functional requirements which
> can be used to determine a close match
> to an existing open source product?
>
> If you are going to have to shift your
> focus from code creating to code reviewing
> (for security, quality, etc.) why not use that
> energy on open source code?
>
> I think that this outsourcing thing is
> just a faze. Companies will wake up and
> see that working with Open Source code is
> much more cost effective than getting
> caught up with more closed source code --
> even when that closed source code is done
> cheaper offshore.
>
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>
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