Croatian government adopts free software policy

The Croatian government has decided to adopt a free software policy and move entirely to Open Source. Proprietary software leads to too much dependence on suppliers, which can damage the market competition..OSS makes the government's business more transparent, it will save tax payers huge amounts of cash and strengthen domestic industry.

It is great that another country is using open source sofware to lower expenses, and hopefully this trend will continue, especially in smaller countries, where they don't have the money to keep up a microsoft infanstructure. Another thing that is great is that I'm part Croatian, so Yay to Croatia for going open source :).

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