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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. Interesting by Bame+Flait · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looks like the Department of Defense has actuallygiven the nodto open source - or at least recognized its existence.

  2. Re:Economy 101: by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lots of people rag on "captialism" without realizing that what they are complaining about is the shortfallings of our own systems from being capitalistic. Government intervention is necessary to remove corruptions like monopolization from the system. And "we, the people" are needed to remove corruption from the government.