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South African Government Adopts Open Source Policy
South Africa announced Thursday its plan to use open source software on government-run computer systems. Officials said the strategy will lower costs an enhance local IT skills. The use of open source solutions has been on the rise within government, particularly within governments outside of the United States, said Gordon Haff, principal IT advisor and analyst for Illuminata.
The South African government announced Thursday it is ditching proprietary software for a new policy and strategy based on free and open source software.
Under the new plan, all new software developed for or by the government of South Africa will be based on open standards. Adopting open standards in itself doesn't require the solutions to be open source or free; however, the government did say it plans to migrate its current software to free and open source software.
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