Comments on: Remind us of your views, again? http://davepress.net/2009/02/27/remind-us-of-your-views-again/ Using the internet to make government more interesting Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:22:05 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: MJ Ray http://davepress.net/2009/02/27/remind-us-of-your-views-again/comment-page-1/#comment-2789 MJ Ray Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:55:49 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=1385#comment-2789 Public sector bodies have an aversion to paying for internal developers, thanks to things like internal developers being classed as a revenue cost, while paying external developers is classed as a capital project. However, paying for an external developer to develop that project with open source would probably have been better. I think we'd have struggled to cock it up that badly given that budget! This is depressingly typical, though. I could rant on some other examples I've seen, but what's the point? Nothing seems to be changing. Public sector bodies have an aversion to paying for internal developers, thanks to things like internal developers being classed as a revenue cost, while paying external developers is classed as a capital project.

However, paying for an external developer to develop that project with open source would probably have been better. I think we’d have struggled to cock it up that badly given that budget!

This is depressingly typical, though. I could rant on some other examples I’ve seen, but what’s the point? Nothing seems to be changing.

]]> By: Andrew Beeken http://davepress.net/2009/02/27/remind-us-of-your-views-again/comment-page-1/#comment-2778 Andrew Beeken Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:28:26 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=1385#comment-2778 Dear god! Isn't design by committee wonderful! Seriously, the amount of money that councils spend on outsourcing to contracted developers you would think that it would be more productive to pay for an internal developer to work on projects like this, using open source technology! Grrr... Dear god! Isn’t design by committee wonderful! Seriously, the amount of money that councils spend on outsourcing to contracted developers you would think that it would be more productive to pay for an internal developer to work on projects like this, using open source technology! Grrr…

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