Open Source for America launches

[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]

"This comes after decades of Microsoft spending millions every year to encourage the government to buy Microsoft’s proprietary software.

"Open Source for America, which includes industry leaders such as Red Hat, Google, Novell, and Oracle in its membership, is meant to provide, according to the group’s statement, a “unified voice to help effect change in U.S. Federal Government policies and practices to allow the federal government to better utilize open source software for cost efficiency, security and enhanced performance."

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