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Government quotas on how much open source to buy appear to be backfiring

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Network World; By Alan Shimel 		Mail this story
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Beyond expressing a preference, does anything else need to be done to make sure that governments that say they are going "open source" really do so?" Quotas -- dictating specific percentages of open source usage -- seem an obvious answer, but in countries that have tried them, open source has not necessarily flourished. One country where quotas on open source use have been instituted is Hungary. While some in the open source community have held Hungary up as an example to Europe and the rest of the world, there are others in the open source community there who question if the intent behind the quotas has actually been achieved.

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carling ·
It does not take a genius to work that one out with the MS back room deals going on. We have seen it happen in Spain, and again this week in England, MS financial support works wonders,

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