ITworld.com: German Government Publishes Open Source Guidelines

"Federal agencies, state and local governments, and other public-sector administrations in Germany interested in migrating their computer systems to open source software, particularly the Linux operating system, can now turn to a set of guidelines for support.

"'Migration guidelines for basis software components' is the name of a new reference guide that Germany's Federal Ministry of the Interior presented Thursday at the LinuxTag exhibition and conference in Karlsruhe, Germany..."

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