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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. Seems logical by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oregon is full of dirty hippies. Especially Portland.

  2. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    First US state full of communist hippies :P

  3. I hope... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hope Bill Gates crushes this godless communist like a bug.

    Open source. Bad smelling hippies, command line interface, slashdot... the very worst of the computer world.

  4. Microsoft by mboverload · · Score: 0, Troll
    Microsoft will shoot it down through coercion with their licence agreements.

    Dont even bother celebrating.

  5. Re:I certainly hope so. by sponga · · Score: 0, Troll

    It may not be a central hub for open source, but its a central hub for hippies and if i remember right hippies like free stuff. OSS are hippies best friend.