Open Source across Texas:
Helping the Taxpayer in Troubled Times

Regarding Senate Bill 1579, assigned to the State Affairs Committee: Currently, most state agencies rely on proprietary software, which incurs a considerable cost through licensing fees and maintenance. Copyright laws on the software restrict its use and modification, preventing agencies from adapting the software to their needs. As proposed, S.B. 1579 allows state agencies to choose software products on a "value-for-money" basis, rather than being limited to traditional products on the market. — Analysis of SB 1579

Tuesday, April 15, 7:00 p.m.
ACTLab, The University of Texas at Austin
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Former Executive Director of the USENIX Association, Sun User Group, and the Free Software Foundation, author of Casting the Net (Addison-Wesley UNIX and Open Systems Series) and managing editor of Computing Systems (MIT Press). Editor-in-chief of the Handbook of Programming Languages (MTP Press).

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