vnunet: EU Governments Gather to Promote Open Source

"The Dutch prime minister and the office of the Irish prime minister have urged other European governments to consider open source software in the spirit of 'inter-agency collaboration.'

"Backing for open source came at the Open Standards and Libre Software in Government conference held in co-ordination with the Dutch Presidency of the European Union in The Hague yesterday, when the European Commission launched its definition of open standards..."

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