Oregon's Open Source Bill Passess Committee Hearing

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 8, 2003 @01:31PM from the betting-pool dept.

Cooper Stevenson writes "Oregon's Open Source Bill HB 2892 made it through the first General Government Committee hearing and is now scheduled for a work session. From here the committee will vote on the bill and, if it passes, will go to the Ways and Means Committee where it is expected to pass to the House floor for a vote. You may find the audio feed and the opponent's written testimony here. We are scanning and posting written testimony (especially the proponents for which there is plenty) as quickly as possible so check back in periodically."

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Response content vs file size by BusterB · 2003-04-08 14:10 · Score: 4, Interesting

I thought that it was interesting that all of the Oregon proponents either submitted HTML or LaTeX generated PDFs, both of which were extremely fast-loading and good looking. The BSA's response looked like scanned-in faxes turned into a PDF, and the other opponents' responses were likewise bloated PDFs.

What does this say about the quality of the software used to create these responses, assuming that the authors all used the sorts of software they endorse?