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Governments & Open Source

Posted by Hemos on from the oh-noes-the-confusion dept.

sydney-computer-support writes "The Greens in New Zealand who advocate the use of OSS are upset about a Novell contract because it doesn't support open source. The article mentions the greens spokeperson saying the contract "cleared the path for government agencies to adopt and expand their use of non-proprietary software" -- failing to note that Novell is a company offering proprietary versions of OSS."

2 of 127 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Proprietary doesn't matter...just get there by mattyrobinson69 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    haha! you said poo!

    sorry, couldn't resist.

    note to mods: you know you were laughing inside whilst reading this.

  2. Re:Govt. logic, go figure by m4dm4n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Franglish, like Engrish, but not funny.

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    No France