Linux & The Governments
Michael D. Thomas
mdthomas at mindspring.com
Tue Jun 4 22:46:20 EDT 2002
Governments worldwide have been embracing Linux, from China to Germany to
Peru. Quite cool, as governments have always played a major role in IT, both
as consumers and as drivers for innovation. For instance, IBM was created
because the U.S. Census Bureau wanted to complete the 1890 Census before 1900.
(The 1880 census took 9 years to complete.)
http://www4.wittenberg.edu/academics/mathcomp/bjsdir/history0.shtml
Recent links:
Peruvian Congressman exchanges with MS on a bill that mandates that Peruvian
government agencies should use open source software, given a choice:
http://pimientolinux.com/peru2ms/alt_ms_to_villanueva.html
http://pimientolinux.com/peru2ms/villanueva_to_ms.html
Along the same lines, Ralph Nader asks U.S. Federal Government to consider
open source as opposed to MS:
http://www.cptech.org/at/ms/omb4jun02ms.html
Germany signs up for Linux:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_2023000/2023127.stm
Linux in China:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1749000/1749441.stm
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