It looks like the Oregon State House of Representatives is considering a bill which would require the state to consider open source software first when looking for new software. This is an interesting idea. I have seem similiar efforts that required governments to use open source software and I didn't agree with those. Requiring the use of a certain software liscence, no matter how good, is a bad idea. However, this bill only requires the state to evaluate the open source software, and in my book, that is a good idea. The bill is available online.
Posted by Noah Brimhall at March 25, 2003 04:29 PM