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Open Source European UnionEUROLINUX Alliance"The EuroLinux Alliance for a Free Information Infrastructure is an open coalition of commercial companies and non-profit associations united to promote and protect a vigourous European Software Culture based on copyright, open standards, open competition and open source software such as Linux. Corporate members or sponsors of EuroLinux develop or sell software under free, semi-free and non-free licenses for operating systems such as GNU/Linux, MacOS or MS Windows." Free Software Foundation Europe European Working Group on Free Software "The working group on libre software was created at the initiative of the Information Society Directorate General, with the purpose to analyze the free software phenomenon, create a set of recommendations for the Community and create a paper to be presented to the Commission. The group featured both people from the Commission and representative members from the EU countries." We highly recommend their mailing list: Freesw. FLOSS Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study POSS Pooling Open Source Software: IDA has released the results of an independent study on promoting the re-use of software owned by public administrations. The study recommends the creation of a software clearing house to which administrations can "donate" software. This facility, which would concentrate on applications specific for the needs of the public sector, could encourage the replication of good practice in eGovernment services. We have separate pages for:
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