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[News] Free Software Makes Progress Entering Governments

  • Subject: [News] Free Software Makes Progress Entering Governments
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:36:08 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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FLOSS in Government

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| One thing that governments and large 
| organizations seem to miss about FLOSS, 
| though, is that, instead of paying for 
| licences for software or not, they should 
| consider actually participating in the 
| generation of FLOSS by hiring some coders.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/01/18/floss-in-government/


Earlier:

Microsoft And Oracle Getting Montana Boot?

,----[ Quote ]
| Just two days after California approved
| open-source software for use in state
| offices and agencies, Montana's governor
| has received a request to rip and replace
| existing statewide contracts with Oracle
| and Microsoft and instead go with open
| source.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/01/microsoft_and_o_2.html;jsessionid=RNIENLVFHEVDRQE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN
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