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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 15:45:30 -0800
From: Ken Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Lane Open Source Discussion list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tech Lunch Discussion Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Cooper Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [laneopensource] Open Source in state government?
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I have just been informed by an Open-Source-friendly legislator that there
MIGHT be a committee hearing coming up at the state legislature that will
affect the State of Oregon's ability to deploy Open-Source software.
We are looking for credible people who can go to Salem on fairly short notice
to give testimony about how much money they have saved their organization(s)
by switching to Open Source. Since Microsoft's newest FUD is along the lines
of "Open Source is more expensive to administer", we're going to be
especially interested in hearing from people who found Open Source products
less costly (presumably in terms of employee time) to administer and maintain
than what the State is currently using (mostly Windows NT/2000 with some XP).
But anyone who can show that they saved money will be welcome.
If you are able and willing to help with this effort, please contact me, Ken
Barber, at a special email address I've set up for this effort:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This email address SHOULD become functional sometime late Monday or early
Tuesday Feb. 3-4; if it doesn't work then please email me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please feel free to forward this to any Oregon-centric LUG or other
open-source lists that you might be on. Please do NOT post it to Slashdot or
any of the national/international open-source lists.
Thanks,
Ken Barber
- --
"The big innovation of [Windows] XP is that it has a back door that sucks out
all your proprietary information and presents it to Microsoft to sell it back
to you or any retailer. That's the big innovation in XP - a back door. By
the way, it still runs all your favorite viruses."
-- Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems
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