In the article it says Ken Barber from Eugene an Open Source advocate wrote the bill. Way to go Ken. Now I hope the State government has enough spirit to stand up to proprietary programs and not to be bought out by lobbying dollars. The article expained it well.
Tim On Wednesday 26 March 2003 06:48 pm, you wrote: > I noticed that today, too, just minutes ago -- nice to see that the > Oregonian is running a piece about "Ken's Bill" too!! > Way to go, open sores = )) > > BenB > > > PS - linuxtoday links to the oregonian article... would also like to > point out that this "Bill" is not at all about anti-M$ or being > Micro$oft-free... it has to do with forcing gov't agencies to CONSIDER > the open source alternatives, which are indeed often overlooked since > there aren't many vendors out there, replying to the typical gov't RFP > (request for proposal) or contract about such free-software alternatives > > On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:38, Timothy Bolz wrote: > > Check out todays Wednesday March 26th, 2003 http://linuxtoday.com . It > > says a new bill will a formal stance for open source software. Go > > Oregon, Be your independent self. I think there will be a lot of MS > > lobbying going on. Let your representatives know how you feel. It would > > be very nice if Oregon become the first MS free state. > > > > Tim > > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
