Article Source The Open Road
November 17, 2009, 2:40 pm
November 17, 2009, 2:40 pm
Government policies favoring open-source software adoption should be wildly popular within the open-source crowd. Yet, at an open-source conference in Amsterdam today, I kept hearing the opposite. Despite the Dutch government’s best intentions to foster open-source adoption, some people think it may actually be doing the opposite.
By many measures, the Netherlands is a great place for open-source software. In 2007, the government started to phase in a policy that gave preferential treatment to open-source software in IT purchasing decisions. Initially, at least, the policy seems to have been a success, with a July 2009 study highlighting a wide array of open-source software in use by government…
