[SolarisRocks]

Do you have any bill #'s? The only thing I know of in this are, in the USA at least, are proposals that would require the government to use only fully docummented file formats.

[Golden Eagle]

Thankfully I think they were all watered down to only require open source be considered, or open formats used, but the original proposals required the use of open source software. Here's a few examples from liberal bastions such as New York, California, and Massachusetts.

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/01/1148227.shtml?tid=103&tid=99

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/print?TYPE=story&AT=2133230-39020381t-10000002c

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,104039,src,ov,00.asp

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-10-20-open-source-mass_x.htm

[Golden Eagle]

Here's a bill # in Alabama. Looks like it's one of the newer ones where they are only forcing the review of open source, although that's still not a fair or needed policy.

http://www.newsforge.com/business/04/02/27/2329240.shtml