Oregon's Open Source Bill Stalled by Microsoft

Wanker writes "Previously on Slashdot we read about an Oregon bill that would require government agencies to consider Open Source software in addition to whichever software they would normally consider. Unfortunately, House Bill 2892 is getting stalled by "stiff opposition" from such unsurprising places as Microsoft. All you Oregon Slashdotters, it's time to call or write your representatives."

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Re:Oregon Rulez

[gl1b]

except for the crushing unemployement, the unworkable tax structure, unaffordable housing, lack of culture, shortest school year in the union due to funding cuts., state controlled liquor stores, a shitty state college education topping $4k without for tuition before fees, &c... but yeah it's "great" here

Also OT but Oregon-related...

[LightningBolt!]

This was previously reported on Slashdot, but be sure to check out this site.

On Thursday, March 20, 2003, our friend and colleague Maher (Mike) Hawash was arrested ("detained") as a "material witness" by the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force in the parking lot of Intel Corp's Hawthorne Farms offices. Simultaneously, FBI agents in bulletproof vests and carrying assault rifles awoke Mike's wife Lisa and their three children in the home, which they proceeded to search. Since then, Mike has been held in the Federal Prison at Sheridan, OR.

And for the tech geek in you...

As a lead engineer on the Intel's MMX technology software team, he developed the MMX technology emulator and optimized MPEG video decoders. As part of the Intel Architecture Labs (IAL), Mike developed several new video technologies, including Intel Indeo Video and ProShare products, the Intel Smart Video Recorder, and Intel's contribution to Microsoft's VfW (Video For Windows) and ActiveMovie. Later he worked on building one of the first WiFi enabled wireless devices used in healthcare industry for writing electronic prescriptions. The project produced one of the first wireless devices with speech recognition and built-in WiFi. Mike continues to work at Intel Corp as a contract employee.

Help this guy out.

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[jkrise]

For the past 42 minutes, the number of posts to this article stands stalled at "66 out of 90". I got logged out automatically, and couldn't post or do anything during this period.

I did something crazy - went to news.google.com and tried to search for "Microsoft Slashdot Oregon" and got this:

Oregon Bill Would Require Open Source Consideration
Slashdot - 1 hour ago ... hear quite a bit about the horrible shape Oregon ... fact that this pending bill gets
attention on Slashdot will only force Microsoft ... The open source ...

with the link:
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/06/18152 39.shtm l?tid=103

which is not 1 hour ago, but actually March 6th!

Very curious.