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Henry Bremridge wrote: > My suspicion is that public bodies do not want to switch to FLOSS for > one of the following reasons: > - Our contracts specify proprietary software. > - The current system works (aka the devil we know is better that the > devil we don't) The "system" being the tendering system. To state that the software "works" may require a redefinition. > - When we have looked at it, we have looked with a view to seeing how it > will not work. We have not tried to think how we can make it work. > - We do not know our current software will run on it. Sounds like more often the current software is more likely to "crawl" than "run". > - We have data sharing agreements that run on proprietary models If dumping an entire database to a couple of DVDs and losing them in the post any kind of "data sharing agreement" worth preserving :)
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