EU pushes open-source standard as 'smart business'
June 10th, 2008 By AOIFE WHITE , AP Business Writer(AP) -- The EU's top antitrust official called Tuesday on member governments to use open-source software, an apparent jab at Microsoft Corp.'s proprietary technology.
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superhuman - Jun 10, 2008
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Fucl2m$ft- flag
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am_Unition - Jun 10, 2008
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^^ yeah. Macrohard ftw.- flag
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Sean_W - Jun 10, 2008
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I am usually in favor of open source but if the EU is promoting it as "smart business", it might be time to take a more critical look at it. The EU believes that being unaccountable, overly centralized, relentlessly bureaucratic, socialist and corrupt is "smart business".- flag
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Rick69 - Jun 11, 2008
- Rank: 3 / 5 (1)
I'm sure the non EU nations are licking their chops hoping the the EU bureaucrats launch a large, tightly regulated program to replace Microsoft with their open source software.- flag

