On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 06:31:20PM +0200, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
I'm in the wrong place, (and I don't speak Italian) can someone else take on the task of lobbying the Italian govt on this?
It's more easily said than done. Italy is really in the thirld world WRT free software. We are really few people and with very minor connections to the parliament (and no link at all with government).
I don't think this is going to introduce any more free software in the public arena, and I don't think we'll manage to have any voice in this.
FWIW, i agree on alessandro's pessimism: on the large scale italian government is lobbying with microsoft (is FS dissemination about lobbying really?) and it looks like berlusconi and his collegues are not a 'nice env' to move in.
alltough! a few days ago in pescara, the city i'm born in, the province approved a motion planning to revamp public administration structure using free software, with some guidelines addressing GNU GPL and opensource.
IMHO in italy it's more appropriate to think in terms of region/city scale, instead of national scale, to push the idea (and practice!) of free software.
greetings
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