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Oregon's Governor Backs Open Source Development

Posted by samzenpus on from the building-a-center-near-you dept.

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?"

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  1. State of Oregon DHS IT standards by valkraider · · Score: 4, Informative

    DHS is Oregon's largest branch of government (or second maybe), and they use very little open source. Here are their "standards".

    Other state agencies probably have theirs posted as well...

  2. Re:It gets even better. by littlerubberfeet · · Score: 3, Informative

    Another OT factoid: He has been to more military funerals than any other major politician. I think he has been to almost every single funeral of an Oregon service member killed in Iraq.

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  3. Re:Has Oregon repealed it's nasty anti-coder laws? by BrookHarty · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think Schwartz said it best.

    I became a felon for doing my job with a bit too much enthusiasm.

    He used normal security techniques of auditing passwords, he never used the passwords in a dishonest way, and he was authorized to work with the systems. The passwords never left Intel's computers, he didnt actually "HACK" or steal access.

    He should of been fired if Intel had an issue, but Oregons law basically make things like using someones xbox without written permission a felony.

    Just because a company doesnt like the way you go about doing your jobs shouldnt make you a criminal.

    You can read more about it here. Lightlink