[Am-info] Re: FC: European Commission-funded paper likes open source for .gov

[Gene Gaines]

Interesting.  From Declan's Politech list.

Gene
gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com

On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, 2:22:54 AM, Declan wrote:


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> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:24:58 +0200
> To: declan@well.com
> From: Maurice Wessling <maurice@bof.nl>
> Subject: open source for governments

> Declan,

> The  Politech readers might be interested in this report on Open Source 
> software by the University of Maastricht in Netherlands. The research is 
> funded by the European Commission.

> The report recommends governments to use Open Source software in order to 
> cut costs, maintain access to public data and provide security of private data.

> http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/report/

> Maurice Wessling




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