[OSGeo Africa] Another illegal GIS RfQ

[Gavin Fleming]

this is a great discussion everyone!

Luncedo, excellent point. With FOSS, Government needs to change its mindset about procurement since software no longer needs to be procured. It becomes a question of service procurement. 

> On 18 Oct 2019, at 11:52, Luncedo Ngcofe <Luncedo.Ngcofe at drdlr.gov.za> wrote:
> 
> Dear all
>  
> Please enlighten me
> If open source software (s) are free, then why would Government put out a tender for that instead of downloading such and start using such?
>  
> Regards
> Luncedo
>  

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