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Finding government apps in Europe's open source forges
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| Starting on Monday 24 August 2009, the visitors of OSOR.EU, the Open Source
| Observatory and Repository for European public administrations, can search
| for applications among the 1749 open source development projects that are
| currently hosted on ten development websites provided by national and
| regional public administrations in Austria, France, Italy and Spain.
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http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/27404
Recent:
French Lawmakers Hope to Inspire Linux Revolution
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| If the French National Assembly gets its way, the open-source Linux operating
| system will take over the governments of Europe, seizing on a weak economy to
| displace Windows.
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| About 18 months ago, the Assembly shifted from running Windows on the 1,100
| computers of its members and their assistants to running a version of Linux
| called Ubuntu. (I profiled the rise of Ubuntu in a recent article.) According
| to Rudy Salles, vice president of the assembly, the decision to abandon
| Microsoftâs Windows software was both an economic and political gesture.
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| The French Parliament should save about 500,000 euros over the next five
| years, thanks to the low price of Ubuntu â- free â- and have lower management
| costs. Linux tends to have fewer security issues than Windows, for example.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/french-lawmakers-hope-to-inspire-linux-revolution/
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