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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>For those who don’t subscribe to OSGeo-Discuss, some interesting observations from the US Department of Defence on the use of Open Technologies in Government.<BR>
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Bruce Bannerman<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><B>From: </B>Mark Lucas <<a href="mlucas17@mac.com">mlucas17@mac.com</a>><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B>OSGeo Discussions <<a href="discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:29:43 +1000<BR>
<B>To: </B>OSGeo Discussions <<a href="discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>[OSGeo-Discuss] Department of Defense release on OSS<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>The DoD CIO officially released more open source guidance. This is a follow on to the Open Technology Development Roadmap that we previously wrote.<BR>
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<a href="http://cio-nii.defense.gov/sites/oss/index.shtml">http://cio-nii.defense.gov/sites/oss/index.shtml</a><BR>
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