Well, I assume you are in Oregon.
Representative Phil Barnhart from Eugene/Springfield introduced the
"Open Source for Software Bill" (HB 2892) this legislative session. Karen
Minnis (Speaker of the House) buried the bill, so it isn't going anywhere.
I gave 4 pages to "Should Governments Go Open Source?"
in the July/August issue of IEEE Software Magazine (written
by one of our freelancers, not me :-):
http://csdl2.computer.org/dl/mags/so/2003/04/s4088.pdf
(unfortunately, if you don't have an electronic subscription to IEEE
Software, the IEEE Computer Society will try and clip you $19 for
the article - I am just responsible for the content, not the subscription
policies - sorry :-(
Texas, Oklahoma and Rhode Island are looking into Open Source as is
New York City.
A large number of other countries have passed laws encouraging the
use of open source software, from Peru to China.
MITRE has produced a report that details the widespread use of open
source software within the Federal Govt:
http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf
Warren
Robert Johnston wrote:
>Is anyone working on getting legislation passed that directs the state to use
>open source software before going commercial? Giving the budget crises et al.
>I tried to get budget numbers on what we are paying for commercial software
>packages that could easily be replaced by GNU based products. No-one has or is
>willing to give me any information.
>
>I just read in LJ that a couple of states had run into resistance from MS and
>others when trying to push this through. I am thinking about getting some
>interested folk together to get see what we can do.
>
>Any comments?
>
>
>*****
>
>Robert Johnston
>Datajockeys, LLC
>
>
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