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Governments should use as much open source software as possible, both because of cost reasons, but also in principle (especially now about the NSA scandals, ins
by devx 13y ago
Governments should use as much open source software as possible, both because of cost reasons, but also in principle (especially now about the NSA scandals, instead of buying proprietary software from American companies).
- masklinn 13y ago> Governments should use as much open source software as possible, both because of cost reasons, but also in principle IIRC the latter is a major reason why France's PM released a circular strongly recommending the increased use of OSS in administrations last year. The first activity in that direction turns out to be almost 15 years old: back in 1999, a french senator had proposed mandating OSS use across the board[0] [0] http://slashdot.org/story/99/10/28/0820202/french-senator-proposes-requiring-open-source http://slashdot.org/story/99/10/28/0820202/french-senator-pr...