It is great the Government is using some open source / free software.  And they also released some into the public domain is great.  I would also offer a word of caution - make sure any software the government released is free from any type of reporting code or a back door. ------------------------ Keith Smith If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. - 2 Chronicles 7:14 --- On Thu, 7/22/10, der.hans wrote: From: der.hans Subject: Re: UK Government says, "Dump Microsoft" To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 11:15 PM Am 09. Jul, 2010 schwätzte joe@actionline.com so: moin moin Joe, > Now, if only we could get a little of this common sense in Washington D.C. We have a little. We need lots :). Obama's White House team has been using Free Software. More importantly, it's been releasing Free Software. http://www.whitehouse.gov/tech I believe the Dean Machine ran almost completely on Free Software as well. I believe it also provided a lot of code and paid for even more development. While he was campaigning, Obama released position papers with slightly pro Free Software stances. Off the top of my head, I don't know of other national politicians and agencies with pro Free Software actions. There is a group supposedly having success getting the gov't to adopt Free Software. There was a presentation on it at OSCON this week. Search identi.ca for !OSCON or @bkuhn. ciao, der.hans -- #  http://www.LuftHans.com/Classes        http://www.TwoGeekTechs.com/ #  Director of Engineering, FonWallet Transaction Solutions, Inc. #  "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." #   -- Albert Einstein -----Inline Attachment Follows----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss