[CivicAccess-discuss] South Africa changing laws so that govt. prefers open source

[Jennifer Bell]

The government of South Africa seems to be changing its laws so to give preference to Open Source software.  See news release here:

http://www.tectonic.co.za/wordpress/?p=1377

And an update by Mark Surman (now executive director of the Mozilla foundation) here:

http://commonspace.typepad.com/commonspace/2008/08/under-the-hood-open-source-govza.html

This is a nice contrast to the laws that an Open Source for Government organization in the US are finding to be snags, described here:

http://groups.google.com/group/openhouseproject/browse_thread/thread/cbbbd6a35af12e1d

Jennifer

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