UN trade body says governments should seize Free Software opportunities

[Matthias Kirschner]

Governments should encourage the use of free and open source software,
recommends Unctad in a report published on 28 November. The United
Nation's trade and investment body says that an increasing uptake of
open source will help to develop an innovative domestic software
market. It also makes public organisations less dependent on
large-scale software manufacturers.
http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/un-trade-body-says-governments-should-seize-open-source-opportunities

Has anyone read the chapter yet? Report is here:
http://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=271

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Regards,
Matthias

[Sam Liddicott]

Seize usually means something more drastic when governments do it.

Sam

Post by Matthias Kirschner
Governments should encourage the use of free and open source software,
recommends Unctad in a report published on 28 November. The United
Nation's trade and investment body says that an increasing uptake of
open source will help to develop an innovative domestic software
market. It also makes public organisations less dependent on
large-scale software manufacturers.
http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/un-trade-body-says-governments-should-seize-open-source-opportunities
http://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=271
If you want to work on comments with others here, feel free to use
https://public.pad.fsfe.org/.
Regards,
Matthias
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