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Another good news comes from Northern Europe, the use of free software is steadily growing.

While in Italy the growing digital divide , will sponsor and pay-TV advertising fathers who pay internet services without knowing why, Norway discussing a very different example of how to cut the costs of the state through the use of software non-proprietary.

Heidi Grande Roeys, Norwegian minister for reforms, will move the funds to the government, to replace the office suite with its rival "open" Open Office .

The use of free software is growing and already some countries are adopting:

in France, the gendarmerie and the parliament adopt the now almost entirely in the region of Extremadura in Spain and also in Monaco and Bolzano.

We hope that small blogs like this help to raise consciousness to the government's savings and quality (as well as a moral discourse) that free software can bring.

Source | Corriere della Sera

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