[LINK] Guide to Open Source Software for Australian Government Agencies

[Tom Worthington]

Australian Government policy requires agencies to consider the use of 
open source software. To help with this, Version 2 of the "Australian 
Government Guide to Open Source Software", has been released by the 
Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO). Topics 
covered include:

* What is open source software?
* Australian Government Open Source Software Policy
* Procurement of open source software
* Comparing open source and proprietary software

The guide is available in PDF (1.09 MB), Microsoft Word (537 KB) and RTF 
(941 KB) formats: 
<http://www.finance.gov.au/e-government/infrastructure/open-source-software.html>.

ps: The guide was not released in HTML format, so I converted the 
Microsoft Word version and blogged some excerpts: 
<http://blog.tomw.net.au/2011/07/guide-to-open-source-software-for.html>.


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Tom Worthington FACS CP HLM, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150
PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia  http://www.tomw.net.au
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, The
Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/
Visiting Scientist, CSIRO ICT Centre: http://bit.ly/csiro_ict_canberra