I wouldn't be too quick to cheer our govt as insightful or even well informed. They may have said no for closed source software, but the closed source mentality still lingers. The new publications, e-commerce, and cyber crime laws are seriously more dangerous to creativity and free-thought than M$ ever was.
Give us M$ products back and revoke those laws. At least, M$ is something we can fight against. If those laws, they are here to stay, and may god help us all. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Ahmed Hourani <[email protected]>wrote: > Interesting, some news you do not hear everyday. > > 2010/1/13 Issa Mahasneh <[email protected]> > >> Hi! >> >> Good news from our govt and Ministry of ICT. After they refused to renew >> the agreement <http://jordanopensource.org/blog/minister-said-no> between >> Microsoft and declared they do not need any new software from Microsoft, >> especially Windows 7, a new agreement "to more open source adoption" has >> been made public today. >> >> The agreement is between the Ministry and Ingres, one open source DBMS >> companies with more than 10000 customers worldwide. Ingres will train >> employees and offer open source software to public administration. They will >> also open an open source lab in one of the major universities. >> >> The ministry will promote open source adoption in all the government >> departments and will take open source software into consideration in any >> future software purchase. >> >> More: >> http://jordanopensource.org/article/jordan-become-open-source-hub-middle-east >> >> -- >> >> ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### >> http://Jolug.org/ >> http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug >> >> ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam >> http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo >> >> ### Ojuba Linux ### >> http://ojuba.org/ >> >> ### Jordan PHP ### >> http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP >> > > > -- > ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### > http://Jolug.org/ > http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug > > ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam > http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo > > ### Ojuba Linux ### > http://ojuba.org/ > > ### Jordan PHP ### > http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP > -- Al-Faisal El-Dajani 10/6
-- ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### http://Jolug.org/ http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo ### Ojuba Linux ### http://ojuba.org/ ### Jordan PHP ### http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP
