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Croatia leaps ahead of Philippines

By rom

The document includes the following guidelines:

  • Government institutions will choose and/or develop open source solutions as much as possible, instead of using closed source alternatives.
  • The government will support development of closed source solutions that use open standards for protocols and file formats, and which are developed in Croatia
  • The government will support the use of open source programs and open standards outside of its institutions.
  • The government will support the use of open source solutions in educational institutions; both closed and open source solutions will be equally presented to students.

NewsForge | Croatian government adopts open source software policy

If Croatia can do this, why can’t the Philippines? C’mon! We do not have to favor open source over proprietary solutions but we do have to make sure that open source solutions are always considered. Is it that difficult?

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