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Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 14:55:13 -0500
From: Clay Shirky <clay@shirky.com>
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A petition has recently been launched asking the General Services 
Administration of the US Government to evaluate Open Source software 
(OSS) alongside commercial software whenever it buys or upgrades 
computers. The goal of the petition, written by Prof. Clay Shirky and 
sponsored by the Open Source Iniative and O'Reilly and Associates, and 
hosted on www.e-thepeople.com, is to point out that OSS has reached a 
level of quality, reliability and support that makes it competitive with 
existing commercial products. 

The ultimate hope is to get vendors of Open Source software included 
in contract bids for Federal Government work.

If you are interested in this petition, there are three things you can
do:

* Sign it:

http://www.ethepeople.com/etp/affiliates/national/fullview.cfm?ETPID=0&PETID=74386&ETPDIR=affiliates/national

* Post the press release URL on sites or in other forums whose members
  might be interested in such a thing:

http://www.shirky.com/opensource/petition.html

* Pass this message on.

Many thanks,

-Clay
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The Open Source Iniative:  http://www.opensource.org/ 
O'Reilly and Associates:   http://www.oreilly.com/ 
Prof. Clay Shirky:         http://www.shirky.com/opensource/

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