alt Hacker NewsImagine what can happen if the French and other governments would start pouring all the money into developing that further in the open, rather than just giving it all to Microsoft instead?
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> Imagine what can happen if the French and other governments would start pouring all the money into developing that further in the open
You'd get a clusterfuck of a consensus spec, then they'd all get pissed off and develop their own incompatible versions anyway?
Have you seen international projects without strong, centralized leadership?
They'll start pulling Linux in a direction that suites them, which will potentially be at odds with the preferences of open source software enthusiasts.
Why haven’t they done it yet? I just think they’re incentivized enough for it.
If governments, especially France, get involved in software development the likely outcome is that people will soon regret the days of Microsoft...
Most of the cost (to the government) for Windows is "support" (in a very general sense) and that cost isn't disappearing with Linux.
Especially since it is easier to find badly underpaid (and not particularly competent) Windows sysadmins than it is to find badly underpaid Linux admins.