Icelandic government prepares switch to open source
Mar 23, 2012, 19:01 (0 Talkback[s])
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"The open source web site of the European Commission is
reporting that Iceland's government has started a project to
prepare for the migration of all its workstations to open source
software. This project is scheduled to be completed within a year
and according to its leader, Tryggvi Bj?rgvinsson, the city of
Reykjavik, the National Hospital and all of the country's
ministries are setting good examples for such migrations."
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