open source march on city hall

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Posted by dav at 2002 August 15 06:20 PM
File under: Geek

I joined a march on San Francisco City Hall today to show support for the Digital Software Security Act which basically calls for California state government agencies to restrict all new software purchases to open source software so as to ensure the security, reliability and long term maintenance of state software investements.

I like the propsed(?) bill very much, however I was not aware that the march would be so heavily sponsored by RedHat (90% of the ~50 people in the march were wearing RedHat promotional red hats), and I found it a bit off-putting. I like RedHat; I use RedHat, but corporation-led political maneuvering is the cause of our problems, not the solution ...imo.

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