The IT Council of the Swiss Confederation adopted at the end of February 2004 version 1.0 of the Federal
Administration’s open source software (OSS) strategy, which, among other things, considers Linux as a future potential
standard operating system for the desktop.
Pointing out that the Swiss Federal Administration must base its software choices on grounds of interoperability and
cost-effectiveness, and that open source software "stimulates competition in the software sector", the strategic paper
defines three priorities for the Federal OSS strategy.
The strategic priorities are equality of treatment (both open source and proprietary software must be put on equal
footing when evaluated or procured by the Federal administration), sharing of software (federal agencies should whenever
appropriate share software developed in-house, according to a licence model similar to the OSS concept), and the
implementation of pre-requirements for OSS adoption (federal authorities must work towards establishing certain
pre-requirements for successful OSS implementation).
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