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Webmaster's note: One more about government advocating Free Software. This one is about a Oregon, USA state government bill.
"In a few years, we could have gigabytes of public data the state of Oregon can't access unless they pay a software vendor," said Ken Barber, a network engineer from Eugene and open-source advocate who wrote the bill. "That's just wrong. The data should be independent of any software programs that created it."
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