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Proprietary software--banned in Boston? (News.com)Proprietary software--banned in Boston? (News.com)Posted Oct 1, 2003 9:29 UTC (Wed) by pointwood (guest, #2814)Parent article: Proprietary software--banned in Boston? (News.com) There have been several articles that state that proprietary software would be banned in Massachusett (which is not true) and I believe Mr. Kriss did an error by mentioning Open Source at all because that made it possible to create all those misleading articles. He should just have said that the new policy favors software using free, open standards. That's way more important than a policy that favors open source software. Of course, that would make all the articles much more boring...
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Proprietary software--banned in Boston? (News.com) Posted Oct 1, 2003 10:04 UTC (Wed) by deatrich (subscriber, #25) [Link] Well, however he worded the new policy, I doubt that the BSA would react in any other way. Here is the register's editorial (BSA imagines open source policy, attacks mass.gov) about the reaction from the BSA. An extract:'...but when the BSA mounts an attack on a software purchasing policy that doesn't quite exist yet, and quite possibly won't exist, one begins to wonder who's driving the "voice of the world's commercial software industry".'
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