Interview with California Air Resources Board CIO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday February 27, 2006 @05:32PM 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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Flighty CARB by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-27 17:43 · Score: 2, Interesting

If they'd stuck with the Zero Emissions Vehicle mandate, then back in 2003, 10% of vehicles sold in California would have been electric cars. Instead they gave in to the pressure from GM and Ford, and all we have are a handful of hybrid vehicles.

I don't think we can trust them to stick with FOSS measures. The pressure from Microsoft and other closed source shops will again be too much for CARB to take.