FOSS and e-Governance
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| And there you have it: FOSS in e-government projects work; they're
| cost effective; and they've been met by LGU officials with warm
| welcome. So to reiterate the question: why isn't government
| adopting more FOSS applications to improve local processes?
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| The main reason, it seems, is the lack of awareness.
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http://villageidiotsavant.blogspot.com/2007/03/foss-and-e-governance.html
Related:
Management 'scared' by open source
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| And the suits are resorting to play-it-safe legal advice and
| draconian management techniques in a vain attempt to stop open
| source crossing their frontier. Tactics include blocking popular
| sites like SourceForge and banning use of USB drives.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/03/09/open_source_licensing/
Too late to discredit open source, advocates say
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| "It's too late," exclaimed Winston Damarillo, founder and
| chairman of software development firm Exist Global, in an
| interview with Computerworld Philippines. "Open source
| is all over the place."
|
| [...]
|
| Anson Uy, president of Touch Solutions (a Red Hat Linux company),
| earlier on broke the news to Computerworld Philippines about the
| alleged "funded missions" by some software firms to discredit open
| source, although he did not identify any company.
|
| Anson revealed among the top three actions against FOSS are being
| done through "sponsored studies, piracy of open source developers,
| and bold press releases."
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/030607-too-late-to-discredit-open.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://tinyurl.com/2bj969
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