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In February 2003, Statskontoret, the Swedish Agency for Public Management published a study stating the following: “The conclusion of the working group is that free and open source software in many ways, both functionally and qualitatively, is quite equivalent to — or better than — proprietary products. Free and open source software should therefore be judged on an even par with proprietary software in a procurement process in order to establish better market competition. It is also necessary to place demands on open standards and file formats in order to achieve interoperability between different systems.” |