[PLUG] Governor backs plan to aid open source movment

Wed Jan 26 01:44:53 UTC 2005

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 5:35 pm, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Scott Van Hoosen wrote:
> > Here's an article on KATU's site about Governor Ted Kulongoski's
> > support for open source in Oregon:

>    Note this quote from the article: "...unveiled plans for an Open
> Technology center that is designed to boost the adoption of open technology
> among developers and industries." Nothing about adoption by state, county
> or local governments is there? And who would benefit most from the cost
> savings in this era of tight budgets?

So, we should each send him a message (letter, fax, e-mail, ?) referencing the 
KATU article, thanking him for his support, and pointing out that he could 
increase his support by encouraging state departments to switch to open 
source solutions, perhaps starting with Firefox. That should be fairly 
painless. Follow that with Open Office. Then, move on to less common 
applications.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens
http://home.comcast.net/~rsteff/