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Croatian Party Advocates Government Adoption of Open Source

Posted by timothy on from the commonwealths-are-commonwealths dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Earlier this year, Croatian political party Sustainable Development of Croatia (ORaH) published a new policy that encourages the government to pursue open source solutions, addresses the dangers of vendor lock-in, and insists on open document standards. Best of all, they did it the open source way. In this article on Opensource.com, Croatian startup founder Josip Almasi highlights some of the policy's implications, as well as why it could matter in the upcoming election.

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  1. Why not? by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 4, Interesting
    If you need a specific program, maybe you need a lock-in.

    For that computer.

    But hell, for open source software, and for the programs that most people use - I gotta tell ya. Libre is actually better than MS office.

    I have several computers, all running Libre office. Macs, PC's, and Linux. No lock in.

    And it is compatible no matter the platform. I can take a file between the Mac and the PC and the Linux machine, it it's the same. Microsoft Office can't even go between Windows and OS X without glitches. And no Linux at all. Pah - it's the outlier now. The biggest thing MS Office has going for it is it's feature bloat.

    Open source as being cheaper? Hell I use a lot of that stuff because its better.

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    The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
  2. Sustainable Government by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Unencumbered open source software is the key building block of a sustainable government.

  3. It is their process that is interesting by Reemi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The main point of the article is not about using open source, it is about HOW they created such a policy.

    From the article:
    First, it was published on the party's website so that everyone could read and comment on it by email. It's common practice for the party: publish, discuss, and acknowledge comments as accepted, rejected, or just as comments. In one year ORaH published more than 30 policies that way.