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Committee reviews bill aimed at preventing vendor lock in government software contracts
Summary
Witnesses representing the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing urged the committee to adopt S.2150, which would limit contractual provisions that restrict where software licensed for public agencies may be run, a measure proponents said would reduce unnecessary spending and cybersecurity risk from vendor lock.
A business coalition told the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight that state software purchasing contracts sometimes contain licensing terms that prevent an agency from running already purchased software on generally available servers or in the cloud of the agency’s choosing. Scott Traxton, representing the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing, urged the committee to approve S.2150, a narrowly tailored bill…
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