Open source to sweep across Europe
European Parliament moves to strongly recommended all software development to be FOSS first.
On 14 May the European Parliament moved to endorse a number of budgetary reports. This included strongly recommending that all software developed either for or by EU institutions should be released under a free and open source licence. This effectively means all IT solutions for EU bodies will first need to be assessed against using open source solutions and the results reported back to the Budgetary Control Committee of the Parliament on a yearly basis.