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Thursday, July 23, 2009

New advocacy group pushes OSS for the USA - Ars Technica

New advocacy group pushes OSS for the USA - Ars Technica: "New advocacy group pushes OSS for the USA

A diverse coalition of open source software vendors, universities, and nonprofit groups have come together to encourage broader adoption of open source software in government IT."
New advocacy group pushes OSS for the USA

A group of commercial open source software vendors and various nonprofit advocacy organizations have joined forces to encourage broader use of open source software and open standards in government IT. The coalition, called Open Source for America (OSA), aims to educate government officials and promote procurement policies that give open source software solutions equal priority to proprietary competitors.

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