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State Senate Learns About Open Source

http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-6037034.html?part=rss&tag=6037034&subj=news

Mike Evans, vice president of corporate development for top Linux seller Red
Hat, traveled to California's capitol to educate legislators in the state
Senate about open-source software, but he ended up getting something of an
education himself.

[...]

For example, several seemed to believe that if an administrator uses
open-source software that anyone can peer into the inner workings of his or
her computer system.

[...]

When Evans told the Senate's information technology personnel he'd be brining
his own Linux box to show his presentation, Evans recounted, "They said,
'What is a Linux box?'"

[...]

And the Web site that offered streaming audio of the hearing only presents
Windows Media audio files.

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