German Government Should Make its Software Available As FOSS

IDG News Service — Germany should change a law to enable public administrations to make their software available as free and open source, a German parliamentary committee has advised.
German public administrations currently are not allowed to give away goods, including software, said Jimmy Schulz, a member of Parliament and chairman of the Interoperability, Standards and Free Software Project Group in an email Thursday. The current law prohibits governments from being part of the development process in the free software community, he said.
"This is a clear disadvantage because it cuts off all benefits obtained from free software, such as being cost-efficient and state-of-the-art," he said.








