excited to attend FOI Fest 2026 next Thursday. Details here:
https://www.mysociety.org/transparency/foi-network/foi-fest-2026/
Cory Doctorow
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Following a #FreedomOfInformation request, I can reveal that in 2005 — almost two decades ago — the #EuropeanCommission trialled the deployment of an Open Source stack (#Linux desktops with #OpenOffice) and that trial was mostly successful.
Here is the Commission's report on that trial 🔗 ⬇️
https://jmaris.me/OSS_at_EU.pdf
Following a #FreedomOfInformation request, I can reveal that in 2005 — almost two decades ago — the #EuropeanCommission trialled the deployment of an Open Source stack (#Linux desktops with #OpenOffice) and that trial was mostly successful.
Here is the Commission's report on that trial 🔗 ⬇️
https://jmaris.me/OSS_at_EU.pdf