The widespread use by the Greek government of the ubiquitous proprietary office suite is hindering public administrations that want to use open source, says George Georgiadis, head of IT at the Greek municipality of Kalamarià. The municipality is one of the few that implement the free and open source office suite Libre Office.

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The widespread use by the Greek government of the ubiquitous proprietary office suite is hindering public administrations that want to use open source, says George Georgiadis, head of IT at the Greek municipality of Kalamarià. The municipality is one of the few that implement the free and open source office suite Libre Office.

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Trying to save costs where possible, the administration of the Greek city of Kalamarià is switching to the free and open source office suite LibreOffice, the Greek Linux User Group reports in a press release published last Friday. The volunteer organisation is calling for an alliance, to pool the expertise of Greek public administrations, research institutes and the country's open source advocacy groups.

Greece's public sector will benefit greatly from such an cooperation, the group expects. It will also help to develop a Greek software industry.

Trying to save costs where possible, the administration of the Greek city of Kalamarià is switching to the free and open source office suite LibreOffice, the Greek Linux User Group reports in a press release published last Friday. The volunteer organisation is calling for an alliance, to pool the expertise of Greek public administrations, research institutes and the country's open source advocacy groups.

Greece's public sector will benefit greatly from such an cooperation, the group expects. It will also help to develop a Greek software industry.

Eel/lak, a Greek open source advocacy group wants the Greek administration to change one its enquiry forms, to accommodate users of free and open source software solutions. The form is used by the Greek government's Financial and Economic Crime Unit when requesting companies and organisations to provide an inventory of their software licences along with the corresponding invoices.

Eel/lak wants the form to allow marking when software is open source.

Eel/lak, a Greek open source advocacy group wants the Greek administration to change one its enquiry forms, to accommodate users of free and open source software solutions. The form is used by the Greek government's Financial and Economic Crime Unit when requesting companies and organisations to provide an inventory of their software licences along with the corresponding invoices.

Eel/lak wants the form to allow marking when software is open source.

Eel/lak, a Greek open source advocacy group wants the Greek administration to change one its enquiry forms, to accommodate users of free and open source software solutions. The form is used by the Greek government's Financial and Economic Crime Unit when requesting companies and organisations to provide an inventory of their software licences along with the corresponding invoices.

Eel/lak wants the form to allow marking when software is open source.

Advocates of free and open source are warning that the Greek government is going to waste millions of euro on proprietary software licences for the country's schools. They are calling on the Ministry of Education to cancel its latest procurement. "Favouring proprietary software while ignoring the potential of open source, constitutes a choking of the educational process."

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Advocates of free and open source are warning that the Greek government is going to waste millions of euro on proprietary software licences for the country's schools. They are calling on the Ministry of Education to cancel its latest procurement. "Favouring proprietary software while ignoring the potential of open source, constitutes a choking of the educational process."

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Advocates of free and open source are warning that the Greek government is going to waste millions of euro on proprietary software licences for the country's schools. They are calling on the Ministry of Education to cancel its latest procurement. "Favouring proprietary software while ignoring the potential of open source, constitutes a choking of the educational process."

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The Greek government is using open source software for its online projects aiming to increase government's transparency. System engineers are using Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP and other open source tools like WordPress and Joomla to run web projects that offer access to government data and geographic information.

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The Greek government is using open source software for its online projects aiming to increase government's transparency. System engineers are using Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP and other open source tools like WordPress and Joomla to run web projects that offer access to government data and geographic information.

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