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August 28, 2003

Open Source faces barriers in various Governments

An article in Government Executive describes some of the issues being wrestled with both at the US Federal level and by many other national governments including Korea, South Africa and the EU. Although the title is more pessimistic, perhaps to attract reader attention, the article appears balanced. It breifly talks about some of the legal issues and political pressures that governments face as they move to open source.


I hope that's okay for a first post!

Posted by Rob in Open Source | Permalink

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The main post template does not show the author's name. My preference would be to include Nickname in the template.

Posted by: Rob at Aug 28, 2003 5:37:51 PM

That's a great post, Rob.

I've added <$MTEntryAuthorNickname$> by it doesn't show. Hmmm.

Posted by: John at Aug 28, 2003 9:31:23 PM

Hehe. Rob, have you added a nickname in your profile? I hadn't, hence the no show ...

Reminder to self: Remind everyone to add nicknames (either real name or your "stage name")

Posted by: John at Aug 28, 2003 10:05:33 PM