HB1197 Status

[Bill McGonigle]

On Feb 16, 2006, at 06:20, Seth Cohn wrote:

> Anyone interested in helping this effort, please contact me, as we can
> start laying the ground work for next year...

Hi, Seth,
	
This list is probably the right place for that.  We are, after all the 
folks in NH interested in working together on F/LOSS.  Bill, Chris and 
I attended the only hearing we know to have been open to the public on 
this, and other than a lady who was there to listen to an unrelated 
rider attempt the attendance was all GNHLUG members.

Thanks for the update, and maybe for next year we can line up the 
proper legislative mumbo jumbo to make it apparent that OIT is the 
problem.  The legislative branch imposes change on the executive branch 
by resolution all the time, so deferring to OIT on this matter is 
strange at best.  We have to assume they didn't understand what this 
bill was about.  I gave my card to all present at the hearing in case 
they had any questions and I didn't receive any calls.

The part about mainframe code is a red herring as well.  They mentioned 
that EDS was writing a new application for them (medicare, I think) and 
that cost however many bazillion dollars.  So, the obvious thing to do 
is to specify that the EDS-contracted code would be available under an 
OSS license.

-Bill
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