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Open Source Software and Public Administrations
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posted by md
on Friday July 05, @09:36AM
from the dept.
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lcn writes "Governments around the world have found a growing interest in the use of OSS in the public administrations but Microsoft is working overtime to quell it. E.G.(exempli gratia) in Italy the italian Parliament proposed a bill concerned with both the availability of source code for software used by the government and with the use of open standards (note that before that some Italian municipalities have passed similar motions).
Well on July 2nd, 2002 Microsoft wrote a very disputable letter [in Italian - English translation via Babelfish]to the italian Senate commission of education to defend their products and pointing out the open source products weakness...
Notice that two years earlier a group of public official and academics posted an open letter onto the Internet attacking the "Information technology dependency of the Italian state on Microsoft". This appeal [in Italian - English trans. via Babelfish] for signatories by the online newsletter saw 2,045 people add their names in a month."
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