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Aust govt enforces equal rights for open source

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Government agencies in Australia should actively participate in open source communities and will be required to consider open source options equally when going to tender, under new policy announced Wednesday.

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tracyanne ·
Quoting:Government agencies in Australia should actively participate in open source communities and will be required to consider open source options equally when going to tender, under new policy announced Wednesday.


probably explains this Australia mandates Microsoft's Open Office XML

Knowing this was coming the Microsoft "plants" made sure MSO was mandated, and therefor Windows was mandated.
Ridcully ·
What will be very interesting is to see which of the directives prevails: that of the Federal Minister on the tendering process, or that of (as I would understand it) a Department Head on OOXML who strictly speaking does *not* have the power to govern Australia.......It's an awfully nice conflict in objectives though. Sir Humphrey Appleby should be smiling happily ~ it is a situation wholly worthy of his craft - and in this one case, I really did intend the pun. lol. :-)

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