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[News] California Air Resource Board's CIO Praises Open Source Software

  • Subject: [News] California Air Resource Board's CIO Praises Open Source Software
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:04:45 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Open Source: Marginal or Mainstream?

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| "Most IT shops are too busy finding solutions and pursuing them to tell you 
| that they do it," he said. There are extensive mission-critical open source 
| applications being used in the California state government, he added.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| "Why get trapped for life into paying huge amounts of money for licensing 
| which forbids you from being able to fix the broken code you have been sold," 
| wrote one state employee, "when there are free alternatives that are often 
| more secure and offer more features?"   
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http://www.govtech.com/pcio/128089

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