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Free and open source software across the EU

Across the EU, there is a groundswell of public administrations that use open source for their ICT solutions. Evidence of its benefits as well as practical examples are steadily piling up at the European Commission's Open Source Observatory. The …

Governments could save millions by reducing their dependence on a single desktop vendor

Europe’s public administrations are needlessly spending millions by not tackling their dependency on a single proprietary system for their desktop computers and o fice applications. This has already led to suboptimal choices in licensing for and use …

The Steady March of the European Penguins

This article provides an overview of the advancements and some of the setbacks of the implementation of open source and open standards by public administrations in the 27 member states of the European Union in 2008. It is mostly based on the news …