NYCPHP Meetup

[Deidra McIntyre]

Oregon and Texas state legislatures have bills that may support the
Pro-Open Source cause. California's proposal is really anti-proprietary.
New York had a public hearing on the issue this week.

Here's the debate.

For government IT bids...

Pro-Open Source proponents argue that public institutions should be forced
to look at all bid options (open source and proprietary) and explain their
decisions because they are run off public dollars and for that reason a
different standard should be held for public versus private IT contracts.

Pro-Private proponents argue this is an issue of competition that should
be the same as it is in the private sector and that, at least according to
Microsoft, the total cost of ownership of open source implementation is
not necessarily less expensive than proprietary implementation.

Oregon, Texas, California:
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/04/04/2231254.shtml?tid=4

New York:
http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2003043002026NWSWPB


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Deidra McIntyre
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