[Am-info] Microsoft muscle and children's education

[Mitch Stone]

Innocent question here: Why do the Oregon school districts require  
legislative permission to use open source software, or any type of  
software, for that matter? Or do they? It looks to me like one district  
already made the decision to go open source entirely on its own.

On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 10:04 AM, T. Guilbert wrote:

> An interesting juxtaposition of articles today.  One is by columnist
> Bob Herbert in the New York Times about how budgets are causing a
> "meltdown" of the public school system in Oregon, one of the best
> systems in the nation.
>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/01/opinion/01HERB.html>
>
> The other is how Microsoft lobbyists worked over the Speaker of the
> Oregon House of Representatives to kill a likely-to-pass bill that
> would have allowed (not required) public school systems to consider
> using open source software and save millions of dollars.
>> <http://oregonlive.com/commentary/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/ 
>> editorial/1051876782142831.xml>
>
>
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