A couple of days ago I read about the free software repository that the regional government of Andalucía, in Spain, had just published with all the software that they developed internally.
Impressive initiative. This is the real fact that confirms that the revolutionary law they had approved two years ago with the commitment of publishing all their software was not “just words”.
Sadly not all the news related to Andalucía are in the same direction. Today I learnt that they have just signed a millionaire collaboration contract (the biggest contract in Europe of that kind) with Oracle for administrating all their databases. Could not they have spent part of that money in improving the free software solutions in order to adapt them to their needs and the rest in paying local companies for providing support? Why don’t they want to have freedom from providers at all the levels?
Because this way Andalucia gets an International Oracle Center in Malaga. Creating 200 worplaces. My dear friends this is politics