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Open source joins electioneering

Publication:ComputerWorldDate:Aug 31 2004
Reporter:Julian Bajkowski

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Within 24 hours of a federal election being called, Communications and IT minister Helen Coonan has swapped her contentious campaign to offshore government IT services for a warm and fuzzy embrace of home-grown open source software to woo the penguin vote.

Coonan today leapt on an otherwise reserved Australian Government Management Office (AGIMO) guide to using open source software within government, elevating it to a an electoral pledge of sorts through the release of a government position paper.




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