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Advocates urge bill to limit restrictive software licensing that locks state agencies into specific cloud providers
Summary
A coalition of private‑sector IT and cloud companies urged support for S2150 to block contract terms that restrict where software can run and to reduce vendor lock and wasteful government spending.
Scott Traxton, representing the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing, urged the committee to advance S2150, a bill designed to prevent software license terms in future state contracts from artificially restricting how the state may deploy purchased software.
Traxton said restrictive licensing practices have emerged that prevent agencies from running software on the hosting environment of their choice and can…
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