Green for Open Source

Monday, 15 September 2008 21:05 Jason

With the upcoming election, I think we should know at least a few of the issues each party is fighting for. In this case, I have been alerted to a campaign idea that I believe will have a positive effect on the Open Source community. The Green Party of Canada is promising to ensure that any new software the government uses follows open standards, and to try changing the bulk of the software the Government of Canada uses to Open Source.

While I have severe doubts as to their getting many seats in parliament (or any at all, for that matter), the simple fact that they're saying somehting about it may get others thinking about it to. Getting the idea out there can often be just as good as they themselves getting into power and performing the deed. Presuming, of course, that whatever party does get into power decides to contribute to the Open Source Movement, I would not be too surprised to see some of the big software companies--can anybody say "Microsoft"?--paying off our MPs to continue using their products.

Even if this does happen, if this becomes even a minor issue, it helps the cause, as it will cause a greater number of people to know about--and consider using--open source software.

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I'm still having troubles to who I should vote for.
This would provide a bit of an insight now.

Open sourced Government software... a friend of mine just switched to a government job.
Would be interesting to see him move over to open source.

Well, it is something that I don't think that the Canadian government will court at this moment. There is an issue that with Open Source Products and Software becoming more and more common place, the government simply lacks the foresight to convey it's information in away that all Canadians have access to it. It's much like the raging debate that happened south of the border with ODF and Massachusetts, the only difference is that the Canadian government see it as a non-issue.
It will take some massive change of the infrastructure within Canadian government, and all of the parties bound to it, before I see the government court the idea. That might happen, transparency of government information happens to be an issue this election season... we'll see. But I don't seen the political will to do it... and that is what will make the difference here.

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