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Interview with California Air Resources Board CIO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the slowly-coming-around dept.

SilentBob4 writes "Mad Penguin has published an exclusive interview with the CIO of California's ARB (Air Resources Board), Bill Welty." From the article: " Massachusetts might have been the FOSS shot heard 'round the world, but California may be quietly building pressure for an open source earthquake of its own. On the face of it, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) is not setting the world on fire with its well-documented adoption of free open source software. It is using FOSS primarily in the back office, just like so many other governmental agencies and businesses. But if you dig just a little deeper, as shown in this Mad Penguin(TM) interview of the ARB staffers responsible for moving ARB toward a more FOSSy future, you can see that the seeds of more profound change gradually developing. "

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  1. The ARB is the worst example of this ever. by Spazntwich · · Score: 1, Funny

    These are the same idiots you can thank for making such things as ANY modification to any car illegal unless it has CARB approval and a sticker.

    Yes, even a cold air intake, or any sort of aftermarket exhaust, even though both modifications to cars generally INCREASE a car's gas mileage and effeciency.

    Given their track record, their use of OSS is only going to allow them to be more effecient in their ability to make and enforce more stupid policies. We cannot allow this. Californians, write to your representatives and tell them to DEMAND the ARB use only Microsoft software.

    1. Re:The ARB is the worst example of this ever. by Spazntwich · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh, I see you're experimenting with those newfangled things I've heard about. What're the names? "Logic" and "reason?"

      Well listen here, son. We don't want your kind here. We make kneejerk posts and moderations, and that's the way we like it.

  2. Vaudville awaits you by Quirk · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'm not one to nit pic mainly cause I like to sling slang too but the imagery and gridlocked metaphors here are just too much to pass up.

    the FOSS shot heard 'round the world

    quietly building pressure for an open source earthquake

    On the face of it

    setting the world on fire

    if you dig just a little deeper

    the seeds of more profound change gradually developing.

    I'd like to try to compete but I'm just not up to it.

    Well done and thanks for the laughs

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    "Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
    Cohen
  3. Setting the world on fire? by brusk · · Score: 2, Funny

    That really shouldn't be within the purview of the Air Resources Board.

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