EU institutions test alternative to Microsoft (EUobserver)

EU institutions test alternative to Microsoft (EUobserver)

M$ may actually be further ahead in translations right now but I'm sure the necessary translation work could have been done for less than 10% of the money the EP spends on M$ licenses.

Personally, I don't think governments should be allowed to use non-Free software. The idea of a company telling a government what it can do with it's software systems sounds very backward to me.

Ciaran O'Riordan