HB1197 Public Meeting

[Fred]

On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:18, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> A bit more information:
...
> According to Rep. Allan, the committee has thus far been favorable
> towards the use of open source, but wants to ensure that there is a plan
> in place beyond "Fix it yourself" in the situation that there is a
> problem. I expect that this is the kind of thing where Redhat and the
> like come into play: You're paying them annual contract fees to ensure
> that if you do have problems, they get fixed. This is, at least in my
> experience, different than the Windows experience where you are paying
> for license fees up front and no continuing support fees.
>
> Anyway, I plan on attending, more out of interest than anything else.

I wish I could go, but have other plans. Good luck. And you might want to 
make it clear that there are *plenty* of us Linux geeks out here that can 
help them should they run into any problems. Obviously you want to use 
better language than "geeks" with this crowd.  Seth will be driving this 
aspect and will do a good job.

Enjoy.

-Fred