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

[Mitch Stone]

I know, and that doesn't speak very well of him or his cause, does it?

If the justification provision was removed, the bill would be little 
more then a resolution of policy. It would have no force and effect as 
far as I can see.

Well, anyway, the bottom line is I don't see this as a particularly 
effective way of advancing alternatives to Microsoft products.

On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 12:38 PM, T. Guilbert wrote:

> 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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