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The Oregonian: Speaker Did Not ‘Bow’ to Lobbyists

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 8, 2003

[ Thanks to Garrick
Sitongia
for this link. ]

“In his May 2 opinion piece, Ken Barber accused me of killing
legislation regarding open-source software (House Bill 2892) “after
powerful out-of-state corporate interests showed up at the Oregon
Capitol, seeking to make the bill go away.”

“This is not true. I won’t stoop to Barber’s level and question
his motives, but let me make it clear that this bill died for a
simple reason: It is a solution in search of a problem…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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