NewsForge: Italian Lawyers in Love with Open Source

“Most of the time, open source supporters think of lawyers as a
crowd of hungry vultures, throwing patents and cease-and-desist
letters at innocent hackers. However, in the province of Foggia,
Southern Italy, two small groups of lawyers have turned themselves
into open source evangelists.

“What? Did hell just freeze over? No, it’s just common sense.
The long-term availability and privacy of all legal documents
deserve the highest possible guarantees. Only non-proprietary file
formats like OpenDocument, the default format in OpenOffice.org
2.0, will always be legally accessible with any software
program.

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