Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Open source test successful
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| 28 September 2007 - A test with open source software has been successful and
>| there are no technical impediments to introducing such software in the entire
>| municipal organisation, Amsterdam announced this week at a meeting organised
>| by the Ministry of the Interior.
> `----
>
> http://www.nieuwsuitamsterdam.nl/English/2007/09/open_source_success.htm
>
> That's another country that Free software will take over. It will assist
> employment, too.
>
This is becoming a fairly exciting thing - the rate at which floss is
replacing proprietary is increasing in some exponential way. The more
governments choose this route, then the more the public will be able to
use standards-based software, rather than pay a Microsoft tax in order
to interact with their own governments.
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