Wednesday, June 11, 2003

Open source software in state governments

Linux Journal.

The budgetary crisis at state and local level is causing these governments to look at open source, as opposed to proprietary, software solutions. (It's an ill wind...) This is, as Martha would say, A Good Thing.

Apologies if this is overly technical, but I see owning and controlling my own content on my own machine as a basic right. And the licensing terms for the latest OS from Microsoft, from what my friends tell me, are quite inimical to that.