Slashdot: NH Passes Open-Source bill

Greg Rundlett (freephile) greg at freephile.com
Mon Feb 6 22:08:23 EST 2012


Seth Cohn you rock!

Greg Rundlett
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On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Coleman Kane <ckane at colemankane.org> wrote:

> On 02/05/2012 04:49 PM, Jon "maddog" Hall wrote:
> > On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 15:13 -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> >> Kudos to Seth...
> >>
> >>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/2259227/new-hampshire-passes-open-source-bill
> >>
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> > I will second that "Kudos".  With so much going on in government these
> > days that is "questionable", this is a good example of helping
> > government "make the right choice", in both the use of Free Software,
> > and (even more importantly) Open Standards and Open Data.
> >
> > md
> I've since moved back to Cincinnati, but I've reconnected with many of
> my "successor" evangelists at the University here. I try to explain to
> them that, no matter how hopeless or cynical the system appears, there
> is a pretty big ideas vacuum. That same vacuum that allows silly ideas
> like SOPA and PIPA needs to be taken advantage of more by our community.
> In this case, it has really helped having a "person on the inside". If
> we make sure to be part of the process, by working toward contributing
> to it, we have plenty of opportunity right now to be influential in
> lawmaking.
>
> Good work, Seth! I'll make sure I pass this along to my local reps here
> in Cincinnati. I know the new city council that was elected last year
> has placed on this year's agenda a plan to look into Open Source
> solutions for long-term planning (to overcome recurring licensing &
> support costs for proprietary closed-source legacy systems).
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