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EU IDA Study On OSS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-it-work-in-the-world dept.

Werner writes ""European Commission Interchange of Data between Administration" (EU IDA) study on the use of open source software in the European public sector - you can get it in PDF or DOC."

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  1. Re:Quality quote by Spikelalala · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hmmm, ok this is a big sidetrack but right now supranational instituions are the way to go...they are the ONLY way we are going to keep check on certain problem...ie terrorism

  2. Re:Slightly OT: Why is there no open-PDF? by jfunk · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    How come no one is using Postscript directly outside of printer-related tasks?


    Don Lancaster uses PostScript as his primary programming language.

    You can do some really cool stuff with it, as is discussed at length on his site.
  3. Re:Slightly OT: Why is there no open-PDF? by jfunk · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Printing onto paper *is* a printer related task. We're talking about using it for other things, such as screen rendering, etc.

    What I pointed to was the use of it as a general programming language. Don Lancaster uses it as such. He even builds robots that are controlled by PostScript (he calls them flutterwumpers).

    As a format instead of a language, GhostScript can do a lot of neat stuff with it. If I were grabbing a document to print, I'd take PS over MS DOC anyday.