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Pursuing Government RFPs: A How-To Guide for Open Source
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| As they make software and hardware purchases, governments are creatures of
| habit.
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| They form long relationships with IT vendors and stick with them so they can
| keep their IT systems running with minimal interruptions.
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| And while new technologies might be intriguing, governments often shy away
| from major IT changes because they have little willingness to take even the
| slightest risks of introducing a glitch into their infrastructures. So they
| stay with the companies and technologies they know as they undergo their
| traditional Request for Proposal (RFP) contract bidding and acquisition
| procedures.
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http://linux.com/news/enterprise/case-studies/15212-pursuing-government-rfps-a-how-to-guide-for-open-source
US Open Government Dialogue
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| One suggestion that I find particularly appealing is “Mandate open formats in
| all government formats.” This topic will be well understood ground for those
| who have supported ODF over the last few years. I urge you to contribute
| constructively to the discussion.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=3645
Recent:
Spanish Government Reconsiders School Laptop Project
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| A widespread project to equip Spanish primary students with laptops was under
| attack by the free software community for being an undercover operation from
| Microsoft to take over the educational system in the country. Now the
| government is considering a kind of dual booting system.
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| As we reported some days ago here, a widespread project to equip Spanish
| primary students with laptops was under attack by the free software community
| for being an undercover operation from Microsoft to take over the educational
| system in the country. In the ongoing flurry of official announcements since
| then, the government has back-pedaled several times, changing its original
| agenda to include regions that are already using free software, and then
| again to announce that the systems would be dual-booting devices.
|
| [...]
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| But it still seems that the powers that be in Spain haven't given this new
| focus much consideration: publishing school textbooks in Spain is a
| multimillion-euro business and many publishers have insisted that the digital
| books that go on to the laptops be DRM-protected. How exactly this would be
| technically and legally implemented on an all FLOSS-based device remains to
| be seen.
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/spanish_government_reconsiders_school_laptop_project
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