New Coalition To Promote OSS To Feds

LinuxScribe writes "Red Hat, Mozilla, Novell, Oracle, and Sun are among the 50-plus member Open Source for America coalition that will be officially announced today by Tim O'Reilly at OSCON. The OSA will be a strong advocate for free and open source software, and plans to boost US Federal government support and adoption of FOSS. From their website: 'The mission of OSA is to educate decision makers in the US Federal government about the advantages of using free and open source software; to encourage the Federal agencies to give equal priority to procuring free and open source software in all of their procurement decisions; and generally provide an effective voice to the US Federal government on behalf of the open source software community, private industry, academia, and other non-profits.'"

Careful.

[John Hasler]

If you get the government too enthused about Free Software they may decide to "help" it.

Non-Profits?

[somersault]

1. Create open source software
2. Promote it to money grubbing politicians
3. ????
4. Non-profit!

Think of this as a concert

[smittyoneeach]

All of the companies named form an orchestra, working within the musical system, and playing a capitalistic tune.
In that metaphor, the FSF is a highland bagpipe. Yeah, it's music, but it simply doesn't play well with others.
The FSF plays in one octave with no rests, and literally marches off to its own 4/4 tune, while the rest of the orchestra sits there wondering.

Re:Careful.

[jo42]

Greed corrupts; absolute greed corrupts absolutely. Welcome to capitalism, comrade.