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FOSS Symposium 2011 - PRESENTATION

Thanks to eveyone who attended, and special thanks to MODIS Canada for sponsoring this event. And certainly thank you for our speakers: Robin Galipeau, Mike Gifford, Zahid Mahmood, Jeff Braybrook.

 

Russian Government officially mandates using open source

Feb 25 2011

Near the end of 2010 Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an exective order for all public institutions to switch to open source software. Initial estimates are that over the next 5 years this change will end up saving the government millions in licencing costs. However it's been speculated that that may not be the main reason for the switch. Despite claims of security and stability over open source coming from companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and Adobe governments and private companies are becoming more reluctant to use software essentially owned by an external company.

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