Dear Rick White, You are a gentleman beguiled by a wag.
Stan, I am gonna erase notepad and wordpad from your system... Regards, Flint On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Rick White wrote:
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:07:23 -0800 From: Rick White <[email protected]> Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Open Source Software Bill Hmm. It was just a gedit text file...? At any rate, here is a .doc of the same file created in Open Office. (don't have Word) hth
I can easily post them here. I just didn't want to clutter up the list. Let me know if this doesn't work. --- On Fri, 2/19/10, Stanley Brinkerhoff <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Stanley Brinkerhoff <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Open Source Software Bill To: [email protected] Date: Friday, February 19, 2010, 3:56 PM I couldn't open the attachment, could you resent it as a Word document please? Stan On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Rick White <[email protected]> wrote: D'oh! Forgot the %...@%& attachment! --- On Fri, 2/19/10, Rick White <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Rick White <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Open Source Software Bill > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, February 19, 2010, 3:51 PM > Hi Everyone, > > Following up on the advice below, I contacted my state rep > (Kitty Beattie Toll) and I attach our exchanges fyi. > > Here is her latest reply. I will be happy to share my copy > of the guidelines of which she speaks as soon as I get my > hands on it: > > "Rick, the software bill you refered to is now in the > Government Operations Committee. At this time they have not > addressed testimony. However, the chair informed me that the > Dept of Information and Innovation has written an "Open > Source Software and Open Standards Policy and Guidelines" > that has been approved. I am bringing home a copy. What is > the best way to get it to you? > > ?I hope it is helpful. You can also keep track the bill > online at www.leg.state.vt.us. I shared your thoughts with > the committee chair. > > Thanks, Kitty" > > If you read the attachment, you'll note I volunteered you > all as informed sources if she had technical questions... > > Rick White > > > --- On Wed, 1/27/10, Stanley Brinkerhoff <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > From: Stanley Brinkerhoff <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: Open Source Software Bill > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 1:44 PM > > Thanks all.? I had dinner with my state > > Reps last evening (vt house), and was referring to > this > > bill, and its potential for evaluation as a cost > savings > > tool.? I suggest others contact their reps or more > > importantly legislators with your interest and belief > in the > > savings. > > > > > > Stan > > > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:42 AM, > > Rene Churchill <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > >??? > >??? > > > > > > Bill status can be tracked here: > > > > http://www.leg.state.vt.us/database/status/status.cfm > > > > > > > > Current status of H.516: Read First > > Time and > > Referred to the Committee on Government Operations > > > > > > > > ??? Rene > > > > > > > > > > > > On 1/27/2010 8:13 AM, Paul Flint wrote: > > Dear Stan, > >??? > > > >??? > > > > http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2010/Bills/Intro/H-516.pdf > >??? > > > >??? > > > > If you can find out about the bill's progress I would > > appreciate it... > >??? > > > >??? > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > Ren? Churchill? ? ? ? ? > ? ? ? ? ? ? > [email protected] > > Geek Two? ? ? ? ? ? > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ???802-244-7880 x527 > > Your Source for Local Information? ? ? > http://www.wherezit.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ? ? ?
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