Governments should encourage the use of free and open source software, recommends Unctad in a report published on 28 November. The United Nation's trade and investment body says that an increasing uptake of open source will help to develop an innovative domestic software market. It also makes public organisations less dependent on large-scale software manufacturers. http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/un-trade-body-says-governments-should-seize-...
Has anyone read the chapter yet? Report is here: http://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=271
If you want to work on comments with others here, feel free to use https://public.pad.fsfe.org/.
Regards, Matthias
Seize usually means something more drastic when governments do it.
Sam On Dec 13, 2012 7:30 AM, "Matthias Kirschner" mk@fsfe.org wrote:
Governments should encourage the use of free and open source software, recommends Unctad in a report published on 28 November. The United Nation's trade and investment body says that an increasing uptake of open source will help to develop an innovative domestic software market. It also makes public organisations less dependent on large-scale software manufacturers.
http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/un-trade-body-says-governments-should-seize-...
Has anyone read the chapter yet? Report is here: http://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=271
If you want to work on comments with others here, feel free to use https://public.pad.fsfe.org/.
Regards, Matthias
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