I agree with your comment. I find that in most cases of government procurement unless you have hired a legal team that understands the intricacies of open source procurement it really comes down to education. Most of the time in involved education of all the parties involved. This is especially true if you are a company that is offering open source support as part of a larger software bid.
Getting procurement agents to understand the law as it relates to open source software and more often than not the bigger hurdle of the process with which they normally procure software is a long road. One that takes lots of patience, lots of time, and usually lots of conference calls. :)
As a program manager, I find I spend lots of time trying to explain to the engineers working on my programs why documentation that they "just get" isn't good enough for the documentation we release with our products. This is a great example and one that I will be sharing with them. Hopefully this time it's the engineers that "just get" it. :)
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I agree with your comment. I find that in most cases of government procurement unless you have hired a legal team that understands the intricacies of open source procurement it really comes down to education. Most of the time in involved education of all the parties involved. This is especially true if you are a company that is offering open source support as part of a larger software bid.
Getting procurement agents to understand the law as it relates to open source software and more often than not the bigger hurdle of the process with which they normally procure software is a long road. One that takes lots of patience, lots of time, and usually lots of conference calls. :)
As a program manager, I find I spend lots of time trying to explain to the engineers working on my programs why documentation that they "just get" isn't good enough for the documentation we release with our products. This is a great example and one that I will be sharing with them. Hopefully this time it's the engineers that "just get" it. :)