>The Bulgarian Parliament has passed amendments to its Electronic Governance Act which require all software written for the government to be open source and developed in a public repository.
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/07/05/every-government-needs-follow-bulgarias-lead-choosing-open-source-software/
Typically what happens now is in a few months it's all over the news that the bulgarian government has had to switch back to using microsoft word
>>55439969
>Bulgaria falls to communism again
When will the free software virus end?
>>55439995
Isn't it better that way. This way the government is not dependent on the companies making their software. This will also prevent applications that the government are yousing to spy on them. As an added bonus you get more linux addoption, which is always great.
>>55439969
RMS is always right
>>55439983
>Typically what happens now is in a few months it's all over the news that the bulgarian government has had to switch back to using microsoft word
This isn't about off-the-shelf software like office suites. All it mandates is that any software developed for the govt is to be available to the public, like how in the US anything written for the government is under public domain.
>>55439995
>When will the free software virus end?
free != open source
open source != free
>>55439969
>open source
>not free software
RMS BTFO.
Open source > free software
>>55440072
>in the US anything written by the government is public domain
FTFY
>>55439983
>Typically what happens now is in a few months it's all over the news that the bulgarian government has had to switch back to using microsoft word
if you switch the software of an organisation like that one city did without providing training in adapting to the software or how to handle formats from the old software of course they're going to want to go back to the old software
but in that case it's literal receptionists using word and spreadsheets, the lowest common denominator
>>55439995
Fuck off back to your reddit
