[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“The federal government has no plans to support legislation
which requires open source software solutions to be included in all
future departmental ICT contracts, and will continue to uphold a
neutral stance on open source software, the National Office of
Information Economy (NOIE) has stated.“Speaking at the Gartner Open Source conference in Sydney on
Tuesday, NOIE general manager of information management strategy
and governance Steve Alford said the federal government was keen to
ensure information on open source software was accessible to all
departmental agencies. Nevertheless, open source software would
need to prove its worth on a case-by-case basis in order to gain a
place in the government’s Information and Communications Technology
(ICT) line-up.“‘Open source solutions have to compete in this space of
discretionary spend and replacing what’s already there,’ Alford
said…”