OSFA: Guidelines for Government
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| âOpen Sourceâ was supposed to be a synonym
| for âFree Softwareâ, the whole trick was to
| make it more acceptable to commercial
| interests. It is easy to see how a company
| might be skeptical of anything âFreeâ being
| good business.
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| But, consider this situation now:
| Government is not a commercial interest and
| the concept of âFree as in Freedomâ should
| be quite attractive to the government of a
| country that likes to pride itself on being
| âLand of the Freeâ and all that!
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| So the strange thing here is that
| proponents of the âOpen Sourceâ label have
| so lost sight of the the core aspect of
| âFree Softwareâ â Freedom â that they canât
| even bring it up when it is applicable!
| They talk about âopen standardsâ and
| âroyalty or patent encumbered formatsâ
| without talking about individual freedom.
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/01/osfa-guidelines-for-government/
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