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European Commission Will Increase Use of Open Source Software

Posted by Soulskill on from the leading-by-example dept.

jrepin writes: The European Commission has updated its strategy for internal use of Open Source Software. The Commission, which is already using open source for many of its key ICT services and software solutions, will further increase the role of this type of software internally. The renewed strategy puts a special emphasis on procurement, contribution to open source software projects, and providing more of the software developed within the Commission as open source.

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  1. All good... by DamonHD · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...but I wish it wasn't news!

    Rgds

    Damon

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  2. Software commodity by dimeglio · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Great to see they will also contribute to open source software. Software is no longer the arcane art it used to be. Almost anyone with some basic skills can contribute in some way. It's not all about coding.

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    1. Re:Software commodity by gmack · · Score: 4, Insightful

      When you are the size of the EC, hiring a few developers to add any needed features becomes cheaper than the software licenses for the proprietary competition.

    2. Re:Software commodity by MPBoulton · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Hit the nail on the head!

      This also avoids the ridiculous situation we have in the UK where many government departments are wasting money paying MS to provide support for XP so that they can go on using their crappy-lowest-bidder-software-that-no-one-understands-how-to-update. Instead a few quality developers can do a better job of ensuring EC staff use modern, more secure systems.

  3. Re:an invitable drawback by Pi1grim · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This fortunately means that there will be a large political body interested in not allowing NSA to get their hooks into OSS.