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Montecitorio hi-tech (Repubblica)
This
article (in Italian) from La Repubblica reports on a just-approved plan
to move the Italian parliament to Linux. Infrastructure will be converted,
and any member who wants a Linux system will be able to have one.
"According to Pietro Folena, president of the Cultural Commission,
'we are talking about an extraordinary and highly relevant decision. The
country's central institution, the Parliament, has decided not only to save
money - which is an important objective on its own - but above all to make
itself independent on the technological plane, adopting an open source
system and thus freeing itself from the bonds of proprietary software. In
this way we are meeting the needs of transparency and security which
are required for a public institution'" (editor's translation).
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Chamber of Deputies Posted Jul 13, 2007 17:50 UTC (Fri) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link] RMS and I were to Rome a month ago. We met the President of the Chamber of Deputies (sort of like Italy's job-equivalent to Nancy Pelosi) and addressed a committee of the Chamber of Deputies regarding an Open Source bill that they are considering. And of course we pushed the software-patent issue. I did 7 speeches in three days, and lost my voice during the last one.The President of the Chamber of Deputies brought up the issue of "corporate totalitarianism" and understood how DRM was connected with it. That was refreshing to hear from a high-ranking politician. There is something to be said for the parliamentary system - it gives a voice to more than just two parties. Bruce
Chamber of Deputies Posted Jul 14, 2007 3:04 UTC (Sat) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] Thank you, Bruce, for your and RMS's hard work enlightening the Italian government on the virtues of FLOSS (and the woes associated with DRM). As for your lost voice, well, I sincerely hope you find it. ;-)
Montecitorio hi-tech (Repubblica) Posted Jul 14, 2007 22:14 UTC (Sat) by pcampe (subscriber, #28223) [Link] The infrastructure will not move to Linux (I don't know what they use now), only the computer of the members of the Camera dei Deputati (Italy has a perfect bi-cameral system, the other chamber is the Senato della Repubblica) could move to it, on a voluntary basis.
This happens for monetary reasons, not for ideological ones. In Italy there's an ongoing public discussion about the cost of the political system, so this way to save up to 3million euros per year helps.
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