Bulgarian Government Embraces Open Source | Linux Today

Bulgarian Government Embraces Open Source

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JMG
Jack M. Germain
Jul 9, 2016

Bulgaria’s Parliament recently passed legislation mandating open source software to bolster security, as well as to increase competition with commercially coded software.

Amendments to the Electronic Governance Act require that all software written for the government be Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)-compliant. The new provisions reportedly took effect this week.

JMG

Jack M. Germain

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