Affirmative action for open source (NewsForge)

[Posted April 15, 2003 by ris]

NewsForge takes a look at legislation which mandates that open source software be considered by governments. "There's nothing wrong with asking states to consider open source software as well as proprietary. Every organization ought to consider all the products that might meet their needs. I'm a little wary of provisions that force written justification when purchasing one particular category of software over another. That seems like unnecessary bureaucratic red tape if we presume that our public employees are trying to do the best possible job."

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Posted Apr 16, 2003 7:44 UTC (Wed) by libra (guest, #2515) [Link]

> That seems like unnecessary bureaucratic red tape if we presume that our public employees are trying to do the best possible job

Please, do not presume too much...