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The @European Commission’s Open Source Observatory (OSOR) recently published the 2026 Paper on Progress and Trends in the National Open Source Policies and Legal Frameworks. This paper examines the evolution of the adoption of open source software and related policies in European public administrations.
Read the full paper: https://openforumeurope.org/publications/progress-and-trends-in-the-national-open-source-policies-and-legal-frameworks-3/
Open Source Observatory (OSOR)
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- Written by: Adrian Offerman
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Requirements added to preliminary criteria for eGovernment projects
The civil society organisation Obshtestvo.bg Foundation has been pressing as well as helping the Bulgarian government to incorporate open source in its legislation. Open source is now the preferred development form for eGovernment projects. The Bulgarian Council of Ministers has voted that the same requirements will be applicable to all government-funded software projects.
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- Written by: Adrian Offerman
- Category: Open Source Observatory (OSOR)
Acronym: Messaging at the Spanish Regional Government of Andalusia
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Geographic coverage: Spain
Abstract
The Regional Government of Andalusia in Spain has been using mail systems based on open source software since 2001. The main driver was cost: Exchange for many tens of thousands of users is breathtakingly expensive.
Our work here follows the decades old Unix way: you make small things that perform simple tasks, and then you assemble them as needed. The economic gains relative to proprietary solutions must be huge. Vendor proposals ended prematurely when we mentioned that our present costs were around 4 euro per user per year.
Read more: Andalusia provides messaging services for 4 euro (!) per user per year