Re: HB1197 Status And Freakonomics

2006-02-16 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Feb 16, 2006, at 13:36, Bruce Dawson wrote: Anyways, why is the Executive Committee getting involved in legislative actions? Or, why didn't someone clue the legislaturers that less than 1% of the state's computers are mainframes? Ah, I was similarly confused. There is an Executive Commi

Re: HB1197 Status And Freakonomics

2006-02-16 Thread Bruce Dawson
Well, maybe we can get someone to sponsor a bill that *mandates* Open Source be used. That should get the Executive Committee to stand up and notice that the state has investments in things other than mainframes! Anyways, why is the Executive Committee getting involved in legislative actions? Or,

Re: HB1197 Status And Freakonomics

2006-02-16 Thread Ed Lawson
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:57:02 -0500 Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My guess is that the resident technology people have no > experience with or interest in Open Source. I trust people know that the main website for the state of NH has historically run on Linux using Apache? There are ma

Re: HB1197 Status And Freakonomics

2006-02-16 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 06:20:20AM -0500, Seth Cohn wrote: > HB1197 was voted ITL (Inexpedient to Legislate) yesterday by the NH > House. This was no surprise, as the Executive Dept committee voted to > kill it by 15 to 1, and released the following report on it: > > HB 1197, establishing a commi