Tux Gets A Chance in the Philippine Government

Got this from the PLUG technical mailing list.

I'm a legislative staff of a partylist congressman in the house of representatives. we are in the process of drafting a bill on open source, compelling the gov't to adopt open source software, among others. As a measure of goodwill, we will be migrating to a linux distro this month until august 2006. We're considering ubuntu, bayanihan and redhat, though I'm more familiar with redhat. I'm soliciting opinions, suggestions/recommendations on the proposed bill, on the Linux distros to use and anything that you want us to consider. Thanks and more power! Carlos Panlilio Garcia Legislative Staff Officer Office of Rep. Teddy Casiño +62922.815.0676 +632.931.5911

If this bill gets approved, the government could save a lot of money. I hope that the savings will not go to the nutrition of the pockets of our politicians.

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