THIS is not yet another report about Microsoft's corruption in Hungary [1, 2, 3]. Hungary is actually beginning to soften (not Soften) and consider Free software. Mistakenly however, an official in Hungary lists Novell as a prime candidate, despite the fact that Novell -- by its own admission -- is merely a mixed source company. Here is the word from realdeal.hu (small Hungarian press):
Under a general agreement on public procurement procedures, the same amount will be allocated for the acquisition of Microsoft and Novell products as for open source software, said Ferenc Baja. The sum available is 12 billion forints each, he added.
The Hungarian government has announced that it will be modifying procurement rules to allow open source to be used in public sector organisations. Previously, procurement rules had apparently named vendors such as Microsoft and Novell. The new rules, according to Ferenc Baja, deputy minister for information technology, will allocate the same amount of money to acquiring open source products as to proprietary products. The move was announced at a press conference on April 2nd.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo
Comments
Jose_X
2009-04-07 03:38:44
Microsoft is being linked to a long trail of foolishness and distortions. That can't help their credibility. Of course, having just made headlines for the attack on TomTom, their plans to be embraced back by the community is in jeopardy.
Here is another piece about how ordinary the MS-PL is supposedly http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-04-06-012-39-NW-MS-OO-0003 .
Jose_X
2009-04-06 22:39:03
Also check out that crazy list from the main article. It features Microsoft as the number one company helpful to FOSS, and Novell is featured at number two.
What an ANTI-List!
[Red Hat thrown in to legitimize the mix? Yeah, that worked really well.]
Roy Schestowitz
2009-04-06 23:19:33
Let's crown GWB the best president ever.