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The Economist on Open Source in Government

Posted by michael on from the birds-eye-view dept.

locarecords.com writes "The Economist has an excellent article about Microsoft attempting to undermine the Open Source and Free Software movements. Particularly interesting are the issues relating to proprietary software and government and how other countries are mandating free software in government software projects."

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  1. Notice this Zealots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    That said, open-source is no panacea, and there are many areas where proprietary products are still far superior.

    I wish the zealots would at least concede that much before blasting the horrible , horrible, evil, closed, proprietary software.

  2. Re:Open the document formats by alex_ant · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ..types the filthy bearded unix slob who's home on a saturday night because he can't figure out why women always reject him when he tries to ask them out in grammatically correct perl