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Mon, 18 Mar 2013

UK Government prefers OSS

The UK government is mandating a “preference” for open source software in its Government Service Design Manual Open Source section, to be effective April 2013. The draft manual says, “Use open source software in preference to proprietary or closed source alternatives, in particular for operating systems, networking software, web servers, databases and programming languages.”

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