European Administrations Should Share Software Resources
IDA,
Jul 09, 2002
A report released by Interchange of Data between Administrations (IDA), part of the European Commission, argues that administrators should share software. This nothing other than anathema to most commercial software companies, since they prefer that each individual user pruchase a separate license. Even worse, the study recommends the creation of a software clearing house to which administrations can "donate" software. Now this study is referring to software developed by administrators, and not to the (highly illegal) sharing of commercial software, but it's hard to ignore the fact that once such a facility is established there will be an inclination to replace commercial software with internally developed or open source solutions.
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