Public Intervention for Free/Open Source Software

Public intervention for Free/Open Source Software

Open Source Software for the Public Administration

Open Source Software (OSS) and of Open Data Standards (ODS) are getting to be more and more accepted world wide in Public Administration (PA). A European joint project (COSPA) with the participation of eight countries studies the application advantages (and drawbacks) of OSS and ODS in PAs, as PAs are among the biggest computerand software consumers, thus they should be very careful what to use...

Migrating Public Administrations to Open Source Software

In this paper we present some experiences of Public Administrations migrating to Open Source Software and we discuss a project which addresses the migration issue at large. In particular, we discuss COSPA, a research project aimed at studying and supporting the introduction of open source software in the Public Administration. COSPA focuses on office automation and desktop system software and a...

Development of open source software for computer-assisted intervention systems

We are developing open source software for computer assisted intervention systems. Our primary experience has been with medical robots, but the concepts (and software) apply to many physical devices that interact with the real world. The real-time performance requirements permeate all levels of our software, including common tools (such as logging, class and object registers), vectors, matrices...

Free/Open Source vs Closed Source Software: Public Policies in the Software Market∗

This paper analyzes the impact on social welfare of public policies supporting open source software (OSS). The focus of the paper is on desktop applications such as OpenOffice and Linux for desktops. Desktop users can be divided between those who know about the existence of OSS, the “informed” adopters, and the “uninformed” ones; the presence of uniformed users leads to market failures that may...