Re: [chat] Re: Federal Open Source Legislation Democrats to introduce IT Bill

[Matthew Palmer <mjp16@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 11 Jul 2003, Alan L Tyree wrote:

> If by "OSS" they actually mean the software, then I agree. But there is
> a *very* strong argument that all government documents should be held in
> an open format. It is totally unacceptable that access to public
> documents should be at the whim of a foreign monopoly. I believe that

That is very, very true.  I think there's been policies like this elsewhere
(somewhere in South America, I think, although I may be getting my Chinas
and Perus all muddled).  In the South Oz case, though, I'm pretty sure
they're mandating OSS - the software.


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