[ Thanks to Jeff
Gerhardt for this link. ]
Tuesday, March 25th, 2003
from Chicago IL
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.
At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et…. Kevin Hill, Jeff
Gerhardt, Doc Searls (Linux Journal), Arne Flones and Russ
Pavlicek; are back live tonight. We have a great show lined up
tonight on The Linux Show!
Segment One- The News. We will cover
THE HOT NEWS of the last few weeks. The whole crew
should be on line tonight. News includes: Centrino debate, Boycott
Office Depot????, Doc live reporting from PC Forum in Scottsdale
Arizona, The egov open source conference, FCC follow up, Microsoft
Vs Linux Numbers debunked, more SCO, and way more.
News Links:
- New News Links
- Doc at PC Forum
- Intel On Cetrino
- Robertson(Lindows) comments, credit due or more attention
grabbing? - Identity By Doc
Searls - Office Depot
won’t sell non-MS XP approved products - eGovOS
Conference underway - Open Source
in Government Conference Wrapup
Massachusetts Department of Revenue Looks at Open Source
The Texas Front By Doc Searls- Debunking the
Linux-Windows market-share myth by Nick Petreley - Nick’s
interview with Slashdot - Forrester
Research: Global Enterprises Turning to Linux Servers
Sun, JBoss J2EE compliance tiff continues- eGovOS: Ruben Safir is not
authorized to speak for New Yorkers For Fair Use– Rubin did it
again….
- Old SCO Links
- FCC Links:
- FCC
Screws ISPs and the American Public - The fcc site
FCC Changes the rules– FCC News release- The fcc site
- FCC
Segment Two- The Political Battle For Open
Source– The Oregon Front
Tonight on the show we will be joined by Cooper
Stevenson and Ken Barber of MVLUG in Oregon. Ken is the
“co-author” of the present legislation in Oregon that strongly
promotes Open Source software as an option for government purposes.
Cooper is acting as a concerned citizen and community advocate to
promote this recently proposed piece of Oregon State
legislation.
The idea of the legislation was a brainchild of Ken
Barber. Ken, a network administrator from Eugene, Ore.,
contacted Oregon State Rep Phil Barnhart and talked with him at
length about the issue of Open Source as an alternative option.
Barber eventually drafted the legislation Barnhart introduced in
the form of Oregon HB2892.
Crushed by shortfalls, state and local governments; as well as
school distrcits from coast to coast are looking for ways of making
up the cash crunch shortfall. Frustrated by these budget woes,
Oregon legislator Barnhart has introduced the bill created by
Barber that would require state agencies to at minimum consider
open-source software when making future IT purchases.
“The idea of the Bill”, said Barnhart,”is to offer cheaper and
more flexible options to government agencies through the use of
open-source, standards-based software rather than proprietary
applications.”
The focus of the bill, according to cooper, is that expensive
proprietary applications and operating systems cost more to buy and
maintain than similar open-source alternatives, while providing few
additional benefits.
Cooper Stevenson is the Coordinator for the Mid-Willamette
Valley Linux User’s Group in Corvallis, Oregon and is an active
promoter of Open Source Software for home and business use. He is
the owner of Intrinzix Wireless.
If you are in a band or represent an artist,
please contact us asap to be added to our play list.
Please join us on the show, and check our IRC
Chat (irc.thelinuxshow.com #linuxshow).
Catch the Linux show at www.thelinuxshow.com