New York City Examines Law Mandating Open Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday May 1, 2003 @12:42AM 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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Then, say what you mean... by rmdyer · 2003-05-01 02:43 · Score: 1, Troll

This thread should be titled "New York City Examines Law Mandating Linux". Why does Linux continually hide under the guise of open source? If Windows was open source this article would take on a somewhat curious tone right? I mean, we'd be confused about whose open source they suggest. Ok, so they should use open (as in readable) software, that just makes sense right? What about open source applications that run on a closed source OS? Would that be ok? If not, should the entire hardware platform be open too? You need open source hardware spec too? Since Linux -is- the only open source platform, there's no reason to minc words. Say what you mean.

+2 cents.