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

[T. Guilbert]

In a message dated 2003 May 02 (Friday), timestamp 12:16 PM, 
   on the topic Re: [Am-info] Re: Microsoft muscle and children's
education,
   Mitch Stone <mitch@accidentalexpert.com> wrote:

"|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.

Did you compare the name of the author of the op-ed piece with the
name of the person at whose behest the bill was introduced?  They were
one and the same.  

Actually, given budgetary constraints on public officials, the
requirement to justify not selecting the (presumably) lower-cost
alternative is probably otiose, and could be excised from the bill
with no substantive effect. 

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