[Linux-aus] Re: [LINK] EU Commission Study Finds You'll Save Money Switching to Free and Open Source Software

[Marghanita da Cruz]

anthony hornby wrote:
>>From Groklaw:
> 
> The EU Commission's Final Report on its "Study on the Economic impact of
> open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the
> Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU" is
> now available on its policy documents, publications and studies page as
> a PDF. 
> 
> http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/studies/publications.htm
> http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/2006-11-20-flossimpact.pdf
> 
<snip>
> OpenOffice.org is free, extremely stable, and supports the ISO Open
> Document Standard. 
> 
and...
> Indian state goes for open source
> By Aaron Tan, ZDNet Asia
> Friday , January 12 2007 06:47 PM
> 
> The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is making a move to adopt open source software, due to concerns over security and the high cost of Windows systems. 
<http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,61981452,00.htm>
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