[aclug-L] Re: open source in state governments

[ironrose <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

I'm sure that M$ will bail them out and reduce the prices of the 
software so they won't go to open source.  M$ is still saying that Linux 
is a beta OS and open source software is too vunerable to be trusted. 
 The battle will get more bloody when more people and offices go to the 
open source side.
~Anne

jeffrey l koehn wrote:

>On Saturday 15 March 2003 08:33 pm, you wrote:
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>>Texas and Oregon now have a bill in the Legislature to require
>>the consideration of open source and
>>open standards as part of the acquisition of software. Texas and
>>Oregon, like many other states, has a budget crisis going on.
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>Even if these bills pass in Texas and Oregon and even though
>all states are in a budget crisis, all indications are that most if 
>not all state governments will continue to follow the M$ road
>to hell for the next couple of years. It took a while for this
>progression to happen and it will take some time to reverse
>this process.
>*Common Sense* is scarse these days.
>I think after Linux and Open Source has moved well into businesses,
>banking, manufacturing, etc, then state governements will be
>in a panic to do something which of course will cost a lot of money
>because they will have to hire the ones who have been in touch
>with the changing times.
>Of course I could be wrong, and people in state governments
>all of a sudden see the light.
>On the other hand, the direction that Microsoft is taking
>and the proliferation of the Linux GPL'd Kernel and
>GPL'd Open Source Apps which are contributed 
>and improved by Universities, Businesses, Individuals, 
>Manufacuring,etc, lead me to believe that in the end
>the business/tech model of the future will be using GPL'd
>software as the *base architecture* on which to build, use and
>manufacture products which will in turn may or may not
>be proprietary. This of course is starting to happen so
>there are many people that have come to this conclusion
>but I don't think it is well documented because most businesses/
>people in this country want to be ahead of the game
>and be the first/best in a new market of products services.
> I'm sure there is somebody on this list or in a University who
>can/has put this into better words.
>
>jeffrey l koehn
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