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Your answer is perfect! It answers a question or an attack the people against FOSS could promote. "One man project is a risk!" - "We have a study that prove it's the opposite" - "yes but if our chosen software is stopped being developed?" -"nothing prevents you to hire developers to revive it for your own use that is the point of FOSS." end of argument.
I'm' sorry I feel I wasn't clear enough. That was the point I was trying to make, knowing your weaknesses or supposed ones. So when confronted to them you can answer with solid facts. And also try to be simple in your explanation plan as if you were talking to a 6 years old.
That's the model France did choose. But for us its official it will be open source. And apparently we are the only ones at the moment to have chosen that path. It feels good to see and other country use the same path.
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A bit long but a nice looking primer to the general idea.
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If you go to pick your car up from the shop, and the mechanic just presents you with a price, and no explanation as to how he came by it, you're going to wonder what he did, if anything at all. You might not know what every item on an itemized bill means, but the tradesman who gives you one is being open with you about his work. If you're sceptical, you can take it to another one who can look it, and the alleged work, over to see if it makes sense.
Same with software. I haven't read every line of the source to everything I'm running on my computer, but the developers have been polite enough to make it available, and that engenders trust: I can be reasonably sure they're not deliberately hiding anything.
This is surely doubly important when it comes to the government. Not only should the people running the software be able to find out exactly what it's doing, but so should the people on whose behalf they're running (not to mention buying) it.
Why would anyone, but especially a branch of government, use software on pure blind faith? I find it astonishing that, in this day and age, people in positions of authority aren't demanding to see the source code of the software their organizations are expected to use as a condition of using it. This isn't a crusade of the Open Source righteous; it's just common sense.
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