Alguns trechos: The case study posits that "public agencies in most countries lack the expertise, the experience, the will, and sometimes the courage to purchase open source." Among the specific reasons that open source vendors are unable to access the public market across these countries: most open source companies are small and do not have the legal resources to effectively engage in public tenders or lack capabilities in project management, professional consulting, and support. Systems integrators (SIs) are bridging the gap in some cases, but the SIs may lack in-depth expertise in open source, and generally don't have good connections with the developer communities. This, in turn, limits the development of expertise and support for open source within the public administrations.
... As is often the case in government, good intentions by policy makers are challenged by entrenched interests, evaded, or flat out ignored in the implementation phase. Efforts to educate policy makers on the benefits of open source and open standards need to be extended to a broader audience to include public ICT professionals. ... One country that appears to be getting it right, according to the study, is France. The report finds that demand by the public sector "is responsible for 40-45%of the French open source market," a figure much higher than in the other countries in the study. ... Não deixe de ler os comentários também: http://opensource.com/government/13/1/open-source-policy-implementation https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/inertia-hindering-governments-profit-open-source-benefits -- André Felipe Machado CEAGO/COTSC/COSTE As Lou Gerstner, former Chairman and CEO of IBM, observed: 'I came to see, in my time at IBM that culture isn’t just one aspect of the game; it *IS* the game.' ------------- - "Esta mensagem do SERVIÇO FEDERAL DE PROCESSAMENTO DE DADOS (SERPRO), empresa pública federal regida pelo disposto na Lei Federal nº 5.615, é enviada exclusivamente a seu destinatário e pode conter informações confidenciais, protegidas por sigilo profissional. Sua utilização desautorizada é ilegal e sujeita o infrator às penas da lei. Se você a recebeu indevidamente, queira, por gentileza, reenviá-la ao emitente, esclarecendo o equívoco." "This message from SERVIÇO FEDERAL DE PROCESSAMENTO DE DADOS (SERPRO) -- a government company established under Brazilian law (5.615/70) -- is directed exclusively to its addressee and may contain confidential data, protected under professional secrecy rules. Its unauthorized use is illegal and may subject the transgressor to the law's penalties. If you're not the addressee, please send it back, elucidating the failure." _______________________________________________ Cisl-comunidade mailing list [email protected] http://listas.softwarelivre.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cisl-comunidade
