Blogging Ottinger (tim)Open Source and the UN
The UN now recommends that member countries use open source software. It might seem funny, but open source really is a political issue. It is economic policy, it affects the dependencies between countries. Also, some of it is really good stuff.
If you want to act like a major country and start using OSS, you can do that. You could switch to Linux or you could start to use open source software on windows. It doesn’t cost you anything to try it, and you might find that it makes you a better and more independent country.
