CCAGW Misreads Mass. Policy, Open Standards Generally

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 1, 2003 @01:12PM from the amateur-clowns-vs.-professional-clowns dept.

mhrivnak writes "The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste made this press release blasting the Massachusetts policy decision to move to Open Source. They explain why Linux is a 'monopoly,' how this policy is 'socialist' and why 'The old Soviet Union could not have done this any better.' The CCAGW has been previously informed about the benefits of open source software in government. Tell them what you think!" The CCAGW is at least not completely one-dimensional; the group is also opposed to mandatory embedded snoopware. Maybe they don't realize that conventional closed-source software has big costs worth avoiding.

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Rule of Thumb by Nate+B. · 2003-10-01 13:17 · Score: 1, Offtopic

"Intelligence is a constant. The population is increasing."

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"Insanity is doing the same thing over again expecting a different result."
Re:The group must be a conservative "think" tank.. by azav · 2003-10-01 14:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Your sig # 1 speaks to me.

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Re:I agree.. by BoomerSooner · 2003-10-01 15:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic

So hack them. Their SSL implementation has serious flaws. I had to upgrade 2x in one day (because I was behind and the new version came out later on the 30th of Sept) 0.9.7c is the most recent. 0.9.6e is really f'ing old.