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

[Mitch Stone]

It appears to do more then that. It mandates consideration of open 
source and requires justification whenever open source isn't selected. 
Unfortunately, the article you referenced misrepresents the proposed 
law substantially.

On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 11:07 AM, T. Guilbert wrote:

> Simple answer::  I misstated the bill (not intentionally).  The bill
> _requires_ the state government to _consider_ using open-source
> software.  My recollection misplaced the areas of coerciveness and
> freedom.

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