Thanks to Sunil Abraham of Bangalore for posting this across to the BytesForAll mailing list. FN

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Dear B4A Readers,

Venezuela's Government Shifts to Open Source Software: The announcement, made on Wednesday, stated that from now on, all software developed for the government must be licenced under the GPL. The entire policy was summed up in this statement by Dr. Felipe P�rez-Mart�, Planning and Development Minister: "Open source whenever possible, propietary software only when necesary." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-08-30-011-26-NW-LL-PB

Open-Source Government One thing most technology experts can agree on is that California's state government has squandered billions on ill-conceived information-technology (IT) projects in recent years. Whether it was the more than $100 million in taxpayer funds that state authorities admit were wasted on the state's automated child-support system or the more recent purchase of thousands of unneeded software licenses from Oracle, the sorry record is painfully clear. California desperately needs a more workable IT plan. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/08/29/osgo...

Thanks,

Sunil

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