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



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

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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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