<story><title>New Munich city government agrees to use open source software where possible</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-is-shifting-back-from-microsoft-to-open-source-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acd</author><text>Governments should develop and run opensource systems. That way different governments can collaborate to build better systems through open innovation. Not wasting tax payers money on closed source.&lt;p&gt;I bet tax and pension systems have the same basic requirements cross countries with some local specifics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NalNezumi</author><text>&amp;gt;Governments should develop and run opensource systems.
I&amp;#x27;m for this proposal too, but for different reason.&lt;p&gt;opensource system can create much needed transparency in government project and organization effort. In my home country the unemployment agency spent atrocious amount of money to create an unusable job-posting app; something private companies do for fraction of the cost. More surprisingly, they doubled down on it; instead of scrapping it when it wasn&amp;#x27;t delivering. My guess it that some nepotism&amp;#x2F;favoritism was at play, and if the project was at least open source it could&amp;#x27;ve been examined by others.</text></comment>
<story><title>New Munich city government agrees to use open source software where possible</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-is-shifting-back-from-microsoft-to-open-source-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acd</author><text>Governments should develop and run opensource systems. That way different governments can collaborate to build better systems through open innovation. Not wasting tax payers money on closed source.&lt;p&gt;I bet tax and pension systems have the same basic requirements cross countries with some local specifics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skinkestek</author><text>&amp;gt; Governments should develop and run opensource...&lt;p&gt;Happy to say that I am working on such a project. Heavy (and unnecessary NDA) so I cannot say in cleartext but it is in use in one Nordic country already, it is opensource and already I hear that the Dutch found it to be a good starting point and probably will be using it too.&lt;p&gt;Some more details, the company I work for is owned by one country  but doesn&amp;#x27;t compete as much as cooperate - I am a consultant from another company. And we both use open source software and libraries and publish as open source most of what we create.&lt;p&gt;I hate it that I can&amp;#x27;t talk about it.</text></comment>