Dear President Obama,
Congratulations on passing the stimulus package! I hope that the stimulus package will help the economy get back on track.
One thing that could help is to eliminate some of the approximately five billion dollars a day that we waste as a world economy with closed source, proprietary software.
How do I arrive at that figure?...
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(February 6, 2009) - Well
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report that your efforts, and those of the rest of the U.S. science and
technology community, have paid off in a big way - for the time being.
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I've found that the greatest time sink is generally dealing with my employerâs security and IT management. Not the software its self. I lost about a day getting WinBUGs installed on a work machine and then getting access to a folder that I'd created outside of "My Documents" (it was an issue with an R package that called WinBugs not being able to deal with long pathnames). I don't have administrative access to the machines at work which is the problem.
The writing is on the wall. I happily watch the market share which has been enjoyed by MS Windows for so long inexorably shrink. Proprietary software brings with it proprietary problems. With a very good IT staff, problems encountered in open-source software can be taken care of by custom patches by in-house development (or simple searches on Google).