Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the last few weeks. The whole crew should be on line tonight. News includes: The egov open source conference, FCC follow up, Microsoft Vs Linux Numbers debunked, more SCO, and way more.
News Links:
- New News Links
- eGovOS Conference underway
- Massachusetts Department of Revenue Looks at Open
Source
Debunking the Linux-Windows market-share myth- Forrester Research: Global Enterprises Turning to
Linux Servers - The Texas Front Doc Searls
- eGovOS: Ruben Safir is not authorized to speak for New
Yorkers For Fair Use– Rubin did it again….
- Old SCO Links
- The SCO legal brief
- Doc Searls Interviews SCO
- CNET Interviews IBM
- Linus Torvalds onSCO v IBM
- Eric Raymond on SCO v IBM
- Bruce Perens comments on SCO vs IBM
- FCC Links:
- FCC Screws ISPs and the American Public
- The fcc site
- FCC Changes the rules– FCC News release
- The fcc site
Segment Two- The Political Battle For Open Source– The Oregon Front
Tonight on the show we will be joined by Cooper Stevenson of MVLUG in Oregon. Cooper is acting as a concerned citizen and community advocate to promote a recently proposed piece of Oregon State legislation that strongly promotes Open Source software as an option for government purposes.
The idea of the legislation was a brainchild of a friend of Cooper, Ken Barber. Unfortunatly, although we had also planned on having Ken as a part of the segment as well, it has become imposible. Ken, a network administrator from Eugene, Ore., contacted Oregon State Rep Phil Barnhart and talked with him at length about the issue of Open Source as an alternative option. Barber eventually drafted the legislation Barnhart introduced in the form of Oregon HB2892.
Crushed by shortfalls, state and local governments; as well as school distrcits from coast to coast are looking for ways of making up the cash crunch shortfall. Frustrated by these budget woes, Oregon legislator Barnhart has introduced the bill created by Barber that would require state agencies to at minimum consider open-source software when making future IT purchases.
“The idea of the Bill”, said Barnhart,”is to offer cheaper and more flexible options to government agencies through the use of open-source, standards-based software rather than proprietary applications.”
The focus of the bill, according to cooper, is that expensive proprietary applications and operating systems cost more to buy and maintain than similar open-source alternatives, while providing few additional benefits.
Cooper Stevenson is the Coordinator for the
Mid-Willamette Valley Linux
User’s Group in Corvallis, Oregon and is an active
promoter of Open
Source Software for home and business use. He is the
owner of Intrinzix
Wireless.
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