August 30th, the "California Performance Evaluation Committee (CPRC)" has released a report, mainly recommended that government agencies should use Linux and other open source software programs to a large scale to further cut costs.
CRPC pointed out in this recommendation report that replacing the current copyright software using open source software helps save costs. In addition, open source software has more flexibility and security than copyright software. Therefore, the report recommends that the government's IT procurement should choose open source software as much as possible.
In fact, supporting the open source software is only limited to California. Last year, Massachusetts has begun deploying an open source software program. Despite this, the proposal of CRPC is still inevitably opposed by the industry's trading group.
CAROL HENTON, Vice President of the US Information Technology Alliance (ITAA), said that the purchase decision should be determined by the factors of cost and profit. Although open source software is legal and has potential development advantages. However, it does not have more superiority, and it is not enough to replace copyright software.
ROXANNE Gould, Senior Vice President, Senior Vice President, also said that the interests of the use of open source expressed in the CRPC report have not been actually confirmed. In fact, it is not impossible to adopt an open source software than copyright software.
The open source software advocate California Patent Tax Council (CFTB) executor Gerald Goldberg said: "The effect after using the open source software is quite obvious, it can save costs to large enough, so we can't easily ignore it."
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