Public administration represents almost 10% of the market, equivalent to a cost of almost 300 millions euros. A cost that would become a saving of public money if the government would choose free software.

Of course , there would be other costs, but nothing if compared to so high amounts and if we look at them as investments on our future. We challange everyone to find negative aspects in this free revolution.

At the beginning free software should be developed as new or adapted to Italian public administration needs, but this would be paid only one time and then there would be only update and upgrade costs; everyone would have access to a public common of great value; a new economy sector would be fully activated, Italian freelance professionals would be incentivated, as research and innovation in our country…

What are we waiting for? Lets ask free software to our politicans!

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The ABS conducts the annual Australian census, and is the holder of all official Australian statistical data. It’s been providing all its resources for free for a number of years, but under a limited re-use licence. The decision to go one step further and allow complete reuse of its material – even for commercial purposes – heralds a great opportunity for the Australian community, researchers and business, and hopefully will lead to a great leap in the use of and innovation based on this rich resource.

From the Abs website.

Creative Commons provides a spectrum of licensing for the use of intellectual property between full copyright and public domain – in essence “some rights reserved”. The Abs is poised to introduce Creative Commons licensing for the majority of its web content.

The relevant Creative Commons logo (which will link to the Attribution 2.5 Australia licence) will be included at the bottom of every page on the Abs website.

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Mike Linksvayer, Urgent: Your input needed for “NonCommercial” questionnaire, Creative Commons Corp., December 2nd, 2008.

As previously announced, we’re running a questionnaire on understanding “NonCommercial” use. The questionnaire runs through December 7. It takes 15-25 minutes to complete.

Click here to start the questionnaire.

Your input is greatly appreciated. CC CEO Joi Ito explains:

“The study has direct relevance to Creative Commons’ mission of providing free, flexible copyright licenses that are easy to understand and simple to use,” said Creative Commons CEO Joi Ito. “The NC term is a popular option for creators choosing a Creative Commons license, and that tells us the term meets a need. However, as exponentially increasing numbers of works are made available under CC licenses, we want to provide additional information for creators about the contexts in which the NC term may further or impede their intentions with respect to the works they choose to share, and we want to make sure that users clearly understand those intentions. We expect the study findings will help us do a better job of explaining the licenses and to improve them, where possible. We also hope the findings, which will be made publicly available, will contribute to better understanding of some of the complexities of digital distribution of content.”

You can also help by sending your friends and colleagues to the questionnaire.