[PLUG] Oregon Open Source Bill Introduced
Geoff Burling
llywrch at agora.rdrop.com
Fri Mar 7 01:24:01 UTC 2003
On 6 Mar 2003, Cooper Stevenson wrote:
> Friends,
>
> A bill will be introduced to the House of Representatives requiring that
> State Government in Oregon consider "using open source software when
> acquiring new software." You may find a link to the bill on Oregon's
> legislative web site here:
>
One item that may help everyone to better evaluate the thought behind
this bill: Representative Phil Barnhart led the fight two years ago
against UCITA being adopted in Oregon. I would assume he understands
the issues of law & technology -- at least better than the majority of
his colleagues.
Geoff
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