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Open Source: Advocate to Government
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| Two years ago a group was founded with the
| charter of lobbying for the expanded use
| of Open Source software within the
| government. The group is called Open
| Source for America (OSFA), and it has more
| than 70 members that include companies
| like Acquia, Alfresco Software, Advanced
| Micro Devices, Black Duck Software,
| CollabNet, Debian, Electronic Frontier
| Foundation, EnterpriseDB, Google, Ingres,
| Jaspersoft, Mitch Kapor, KnowledgeTree,
| The Linux Foundation, Lucid Imagination,
| Mozilla, Novell, Oracle, OâReilly
| Publishing, Pentaho, Red Hat, SpikeSource,
| SugarCRM, and Zimbra.
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http://www.formtek.com/blog/?p=1214
Bolzano, please don't waste your money
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| on 25 May 2010 the regional government
| authority of Bolzano decided to spend 2.2
| million EUR over the next three years to
| renew software licenses from Microsoft
| Ireland, and to buy additional licenses.
| All this was done without a public call
| for tender, making it impossible for
| competing suppliers of similar software to
| make offers of their own.
|
| We ask you to rethink this decision. It
| will influence your strategic position
| over a much longer time frame than the
| three years for which the licenses will
| last.
|
| The European Commissionâs vice president
| Neelie Kroes said on June 13 2010 in
| Brussels:
|
| "Many authorities have found
| themselves unintentionally locked into
| proprietary technology for decades.
| After a certain point that original
| choice becomes so ingrained that
| alternatives risk being systematically
| ignored, no matter what the potential
| benefits. This is a waste of public
| money that most public bodies can no
| longer afford."
|
| With your decision to buy Microsoft
| Sharepoint and Microsoft Office
| communication server software without
| evaluating Free Software alternatives you
| will increase your organisation's
| dependence on Microsoft. You will take
| your IT systems further down the one-way
| street of proprietary formats and
| proprietary software, locking in your
| organisation's own data along with that of
| the citizens of Bolzano.
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http://www.fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100702-01.en.html
Recent:
Italy to begin an open source competence centre
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| Italian public administrations considering
| to use open source can turn to a competence
| centre specialised in this type of
| software. The web-based centre, which will
| be opened tomorrow, aims to foster the
| development and adoption of open source
| software.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/italy-to-begin-an-open-source-competence-centre
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