Sunday, August 14th, 2005, 4:20 am
Governments and Diversity
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overnmental offices and agencies are expected, more than any other body, to cater for a large variety of cultures. This item is not a political one, but it refers to governments which unknowingnly support a commercial monopoly, which happens to be a majority. The benefit to governments taking this stance is scarce or inexistent. At the end of the day, cash only flows towards the folks at Washington state.
The city of Vienna has recently moved to an all-Linux infrastructure. Britain appears to be highly conscious of the diversity of browsers and operating systems out there (exception #1, exception #2) unlike many other countires I know. Some other governments have recently expressed willingness to follow suit and move to Open Source.
To spice up this write-up and give some fruit for thought, The Australian Tax Office adopted OSS and nonetheless, the Australian ‘e-tax’ system is Windows-only. If you talk the talk, you must also walk the walk.
