Tagged and Bagged: canada, open source
Check out this blog post, especially the comments. It reports that the Canadian government is actively seeking information about the use of “No-Charge Licensed Software (typically referred to as Free and Open Source Software or FOSS and also applicable to freeware).”
It was not too long ago that I had to write to the webmaster of the Canada Revenue Agency to see if they’d consider including Firefox as one of their approved web browsers. I didn’t receive a response, but others must have also written in, as it is now one of the choices.
One can hope.
It’s about time that the Canadian government is finally starting take Open Source software seriously. Now only if we can sneak in some of the GPL Richard Stallman based software while they are not looking! Muhahahahahahaah Okay, I am a nerd. Sheeezz
No, you can’t really get something that you want all the time.
@od – I know, and that makes me feel so sad.