NewsForge carries a lightly edited transcript of a presentation by Tony Stanco made at a meeting of the New York City Council's Select Committee on Technology in Government on April 29, 2003. "One question that is seldom asked is, "How can Open Source possibly be giving multi-billion dollar companies so much competition that they feel they need to actively dissuade government officials from even thinking of using Open Source software?" This is not an idle question. Open Source doesn't have lobbyists or marketers or ad men to promote its software. So, to say that governments shouldn't have rules to consider Open Source software, as Open Source opponents often do, takes away the only avenue that Open Source has to really reach government."

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