EU pushes open-source standard as 'smart business'

June 10, 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
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• am_Unition - Jun 10, 2008
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  ^^ yeah. Macrohard ftw.
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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".
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• Rick69 - Jun 11, 2008
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  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.
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