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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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JSFM said...

I love the idea. Two practical questions, though.

First, and most simply, I assume there are areas of government for which this proposal would not be suitable. National security, e.g. Have you given much thought to those sectoral boundaries?

Second, and more fundamentally, wouldn't this proposal drop the bottom out of the public sector software industry? That is, wouldn't it mean that any given software solution could only be sold once, since it enters the public domain as soon as the sale's completed and every other potential customer will just adopt the open-source version?

June 2, 2012 at 1:30 PM

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