[sw_livre] Linux reaches the Italian Parliament

After the French Parliament's migration to Linux, the Italian Chamber of
Deputies <http://english.camera.it/> (Camera dei Deputati) chose to let
"/*The Penguin*/"/* enter into the heart of the Italian Democracy*/...

As /partly/ reported
<http://www.repubblica.it/2007/07/sezioni/scienza_e_tecnologia/linux-parlamento/linux-parlamento/linux-parlamento.html>
by the Italian newspaper /*Repubblica*/, on /July 10^th , 2007/ a plan
suggested by the left deputies Pietro Folena
<http://www.pietrofolena.net/blog/> and Franco Grillini
<http://www.grillini.it/> to _*migrate all the computers of the
Parliament *_/*_from Windows to Linux_*/ was _/approved/_ by the Chamber.

The migration will affect about _/3500 public boxes/_ of the Chamber,
/*both desktops and servers*/, and each Deputy/Party may also ask to
migrate his/its (private) computers to the Free Operating System.

This choice has been taken for various reasons... Fist of all this
decision will allow to *economize*, _/saving/_ more than _/3 million
Euro every year/_ (the licenses of each machine actually cost about
900€/year). It's also a great step towards the /*technological freedom
and independence*/, moving away from (monopolistic) proprietary software
that contrasts with the meaning of democracy itself.
There are many technical reasons as well, the most important dealing
with the *security of the Parliament* (and because of that all the
citizens).

With this decision Folena <http://www.pietrofolena.net/blog/?p=269>
(after /explaining better the migration/) hopes
<http://www.pietrofolena.net/blog/?p=269> that also the */local
administrations/* will move to free environments as well, like the
province of /*Bolzano*/ already has done with the FUSS! project
<http://www.fuss.bz.it/welcome-fuss-project>.
http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/blog/linux-docs/italian-parliament-moves-to-linux/

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Obrigado,
Joaquim Machado