South Africa changing laws so that govt. prefers open source

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South Africa changing laws so that govt. prefers open source

Jennifer Bell
The government of South Africa seems to be changing its laws so to give preference to Open Source software.  See news release here:

http://www.tectonic.co.za/wordpress/?p=1377

And an update by Mark Surman (now executive director of the Mozilla foundation) here:

http://commonspace.typepad.com/commonspace/2008/08/under-the-hood-open-source-govza.html

This is a nice contrast to the laws that an Open Source for Government organization in the US are finding to be snags, described here:

http://groups.google.com/group/openhouseproject/browse_thread/thread/cbbbd6a35af12e1d

Jennifer

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