[FYI] Governments push open-source software

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-202-6996393.html

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Governments push open-source software  

By Paul Festa  

Staff Writer, CNET News.com  

August 29, 2001, 4:00 a.m. PT  

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6996393.html?tag=prntfr  

Governments around the world have found a new rallying cry--"Software 
libre!"--and Microsoft is working overtime to quell it.  

A recent global wave of legislation is compelling government 
agencies, and in some cases government-owned companies, to use open-
source or free software unless proprietary software is the only 
feasible option.  

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