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Texas Bill Would Require Open Source Consideration
Skapare writes "The Texas Legislature now has before it a bill ( ASCII text here, PDF here), submitted by State Senator John Carona, to require the state to consider open source and open standards as part of the acquisition of software. Texas, like many other states, has a budget crisis going on. If this passes, I believe it could help the state save a lot of money. Texans need to make sure their state representatives and senators know they want this to pass."
Why is a republican supporting this bill? There is no money in open source software. What is the truly liberal slashdot crowd to do? We love open source but hate republicans. They must be doing this so "Big Oil" can save some money, or maybe to kill innocent people in Iraq. What makes this worse is it's coming from Texas, oh no what to do.... Go listen to my Dixie Chicks CD and smoke pot I guess.
This could be a huge boon to open source. Companies like Red-Hat could run promotional campaigns based on being the software of choice in TX.
Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox could become the de facto pioneers of a whole slew of software designed to speed the execution of retarded prisoners.
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
The Republican party isn't a Christian party. Many Republicans are of certain christian beliefs, but that says nothing for the party as a whole. I can tell you for one thing, I don't think a single person at my church (myself excluded) votes republican. Since they're all democrats, does that make the democrat party a christian party?