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New York City Examines Law Mandating Open Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the budget-crisis dept.

An anonymous submitter writes "The New York Council held a hearing on the 'SOFTWARE WARS.' The Select Committee on Technology in Government, chaired by Council Member Gale A. Brewer (D-Manhattan), held a public hearing Tuesday on software procurement practices by state and local governments. Representatives from the City's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Microsoft, as well as numerous local software companies testified. Newsforge is carrying the testimony at the hearing of Tony Stanco, Director of The Center of Open Source & Government." Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.

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  1. Ummm.... by Knightsabre · · Score: 4, Funny

    Representatives from the City's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Microsoft, as well as numerous local software companies testified.

    I assume that was meant to read 'Representatives from the City's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications AND Microsoft, as well as numerous local software companies testified.'?

    Not that we didn't already suspect there was evil at work in government... ;)

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  2. License Negotiation Time again eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    NYC's Contract with Microsoft must be about to expire.

    "Hey Bill, give us a 90% discount or we're going Open Source!"

  3. Re:Mandatory? by SN74S181 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've got a Windows workstation, a Linux server, and a Mac laptop on my desk.

    Whoa! There must be about as much space on your desk to do real work as a post-it-note.