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Oregon's Governor Backs Open Source Development
Colonel Panic writes "Oregon's Governor Ted Kulongoski is backing a plan to establish an Open Technology Center in Beaverton (also home to the OSDL). The purpose of the center will be to boost the adoption of open technology among developers and industries. Given that the Portland area hosts OSCON and is the home to the OSDL and now Linus, is Portland becoming the center for Open Source development in the US?"
Is there a secret war going on between Oregon and Washinton? //Puts on tin foil hat
...there's not much to do in Beaverton besides staying indoors and writing open source software.
Dedicated Linux servers (root access) $45 p.M.
I saw Linus eating at the McDonalds on the Beverton Hillsdale Highway. I think he was eating the number 3 meal (Royale With Cheese, Coke, Fries) and I am pretty sure it was super sized.
Haha! Beaverton... he said Beaverton... *snort* hahahaha
Is Portland becoming the center for Open Source development in the US?
As much as any other town with more than 1 famous Open Source developer. One swallow does not make a(n Open Source) summer (camp), even if that swallow flew in from Finland and even if it likes penguins for reasons you do not even want to know.
After intense lobbying by a large redmond based software company, GW declares all out war on "Those Commies over thar' in Portland". Airstrikes to begin immediately on the nefarious, shadowy group known only as OSDL.
Beaver, Oregon
The best part is the "Beaver Locator".
This is the same Governor whose pet project is CNIC, a colsolidated Data Center, to save money and improve security.
:-)
In fact, securty is mentioned over and over in this project.
So, to improve security, the State or Oregon is putting all their servers in one building near the airport at the end of a runway in a floodplain!!
(Apparently, Mount St. Helens (Volcano) property was already taken or something..)
And, they already had a public goundbreaking, so everyone knows where it is!
Yep, the champion of OpenSource!!
(Don't worry tho, Accenture is helping us with the project!!
it's miserable in Oregon.
Please stay away.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
me too! /goodbye AOL
grape - the GNU free, open source rape
Great for Beaverton!!! The town hasn't been the same since Tanya Harding moved to Wash.
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Excuse me? We are, for the most part, very clean-cut hippies.
... *slants tin foil hat down 23 degrees*
All the derogatory comments in this blog regarding Oregon are true! We are just strange people that love living in these horrible living conditions (like lots of rain and that sort of thing)! You wouldn't like it here, so don't even think of coming here (unless you want to vacation here for a week or so).
Heard any good sigs lately?
Did I miss something? What does the color of the houses have to do with development of OSS? Furthermore, with all the trees, it's mostly green around here. We're also known as being blue on the political map, though closer examination shows that to be in the metro area, with Eastern Oregon being mostly red. Still, I don't see your point.
The Spoon
Updated 6/28/2011
Absolutely. Waiting for the bus in the rain keeps us well rinsed.
Says someone named billybob.
As I've already moderated, I must post as AC....
A Texan, a Californian, and an Oregonian are out riding horses. The Texan pulls out an expensive bottle of whiskey, takes a long swig, then another, and suddenly throws it into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the bottle in midair. The Californian looks at him and says, "What are you doing? That was a perfectly good bottle of whiskey!" The Texan says, "In Texas, there's plenty of whiskey and bottles are cheap." A while later, not wanting to be outdone, the Californian pulls out a bottle of champagne, takes a few sips, throws the champagne into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots it in midair. The Oregonian can't believe this and says, "What the heck did you do that for??? That was an expensive bottle of champagne!" The Californian says "In California, there's plenty of champagne and bottles are cheap." So a while later, the Oregonian pulls out a bottle of Widmer Hefeweizen. He opens it, takes a sip, takes another sip, then chugs the rest. He then puts the bottle back in his saddlebag, pulls out his gun, turns around and shoots the Californian. The Texan, shocked, says, "Why the hell did you do that?!" The Oregonian replied, "In Oregon we have plenty of Californians, and bottles are worth a nickel."