CRIME Oregon Considers Open Source Software Legislation: HR 2892 by Phil Barnhart

From: Crispin Cowan (crispin@private)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 16:48:48 PST

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    As covered on Slashdot 
<http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/06/1815239.shtml?tid=103&tid=123> 
and Newsforge 
<http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/03/06/018222.shtml?tid=4>, Eugene 
Rep. Phil Barnhart has introduced HR 2892, which requires state 
government to consider open source solutions along with proprietary 
solutions, as well as requiring a justification for choosing a 
proprietary solution.

Cool :-)

Crispin

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