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Linux reaches the Italian Parliament

Tux alla Camera dei Deputati

After the French Parliament’s migration to Linux, the Italian Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati) chose to let "The Penguin" enter into the heart of the Italian Democracy…

As partly reported by the Italian newspaper Repubblica, on July 10th, 2007 a plan suggested by the left deputies Pietro Folena and Franco Grillini 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 (after explaining better the migration) hopes that also the local administrations will move to free environments as well, like the province of Bolzano already has done with the FUSS! project.

EDIT [12-07-2007]: according to The Inquirer’s article (that has made a small interview to Folena) and to a short message that Folena has written today [13-07-2007], the Italian Parliament – starting from September 2007 and for about two years – will move to SuSE Linux since the Camera has already a contract with Novell. For an Ubuntu lover like me it isn’t the best choice, but also if Novell has made a pact with the Devil (read it Micro$oft) it’s always running “our” kernel :P

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Posted in Xtra | Treviño, 12 luglio 2007 05:38 | Commenti (24)

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  1. Linux for the Italian parliament?

    Every member of the Italian parliament can now ask to replace his Windows workstation with a Linux one. Many people say that this is a revolution but I can’t completely agree. Thinking to the medium age of the members and their familiarity with …

    Trackback di Fabrizio Balliano — 12 luglio 2007 @ 09:37

  2. Why you have to change the original article from "Repubblica"?

    What you have written is false and doesn’t help Linux or OS.

     Cris.

    Commento di Cristiano Deana — 12 luglio 2007 @ 16:58

  3. Cristiano Deana I’ve not changed anything! Did you read the Folena’s Post?

    Well, that’s it! 

    Commento di Treviño — 12 luglio 2007 @ 17:10

  4. [...] το Treviño’s Blog. Τι χάζοι. Φαίνεται δεν μπόρεσαν να πετύχουν τόσο καλή συμφωνία όπως τα δικά μας τσακάλιαξέμειναν με το λινουξάκι… Tags: Κανέναtag [...]

    Pingback di ατίτλως : Blog Archive » Και η Ιταλική βουλή το γυρίζει σε linux — 12 luglio 2007 @ 17:17

  5. @ Cristiano Deana: the article from "Repubblica" hasn’t been changed at all ;)

    As written in Folena’s post and reported in this one:
    "Il piano prevede il passaggio graduale dell’intera amministrazione di Montecitorio al nuovo sistema (server, desktop e applicazioni) e l’opzione, a richiesta, per le segreterie e i deputati (compresi i computer portatili)"

    The plan involves the gradual migration of the whole Chamber administration computers to the new system AND, optionally, the Deputies’ computers.

     

    Commento di Daniele — 12 luglio 2007 @ 17:58

  6. After being dugg (thanks all!), this article has been linked by LinuxToday too ;)

    Commento di Treviño — 12 luglio 2007 @ 18:46

  7. [...] I recently emailed my MLA to start a dialog on the use of Free and Open Source software in our local government, health care and Education. I will post about my experience on this topic as soon as I have more to report. http://blog.3v1n0.net/linux-docs/italian-parliament-moves-to-linux/ [...]

    Pingback di Rich on Linux, OSS and other stuff » Treviño’s Blog : Linux reaches the Italian Parliament — 12 luglio 2007 @ 19:10

  8. [...] It seems another European nation has switching its government operations over to Linux. Following the French Paliment’s decision to move towards Linux, Italy has followed suit and started to switch their Chamber of Deputies to Linux. [...]

    Pingback di gareth.wiked.org » Blog Archive » Europe switching to Linux? — 12 luglio 2007 @ 19:31

  9. [...] “As reported by the Italian newspaper Repubblica on July 10th, 2007, a plan suggested by the left deputies Pietro Folena and Franco Grillini to migrate all the computers of the Parliament from Windows to Linux was approved by the Chamber…” Read more at TuxFamily [...]

    Pingback di FreeSoftNews » Blog Archive » Linux Reaches the Italian Parliament — 12 luglio 2007 @ 19:44

  10. [...] Article in The Inquirer, a bit in Treviño’s Blog, and if you read Italian here’s an article from la Repubblica.it   [...]

    Pingback di Italian Parliament Chooses SUSE Linux « Linux In Novell’s East Region — 12 luglio 2007 @ 22:00

  11. [...] El Parlamento Italiano da el gran paso y hace la transición de Windows a Linux en sus sistemas. [...]

    Pingback di Linux reaches the Italian Parliament @ bloglsia — 12 luglio 2007 @ 22:18

  12. Hey Trevino! This is excellent news, I’m glad to hear it.

    I hope you might get some Italian revenue for assisting in the project as well, considering you’re one of the more respected and popular Italian Ubuntu people.

    ;)  

    Commento di Shawn Q — 12 luglio 2007 @ 22:51

  13. It seems that the choice is gone for SuSE, that’s why any hope is gone :(

    Commento di Treviño — 12 luglio 2007 @ 23:12

  14. [...] Article here. [...]

    Pingback di Linux reaches the Italian Parliament « studio 21 — 13 luglio 2007 @ 02:17

  15. [...] Fonte [...]

    Pingback di SharpBlog » Linux in Parlamento — 13 luglio 2007 @ 10:31

  16. [...] Por otro, el Parlamento italiano decide “meter un pingüino en el mismo corazón de la democracia“, y aprueba una resolución para migrar a Linux los más de tres mil quinientos ordenadores de la institución y solicitar de manera recomendada tanto a los partidos como a los 630 parlamentarios que hagan lo mismo, incluyendo sus ordenadores portátiles. El diputado Pietro Folena lo explica y celebra en su página (en italiano). La razón es el ahorro de más de tres millones de euros anuales en licencias (según Folena, la decisión permite un ahorro del 90% del coste de cada puesto, y ahorros aún mayores a nivel de servidores) y, sobre todo, el “dar un paso hacia la libertad e independencia tecnológica al salir de un software propietario y monopolístico que contrasta con el significado de la misma democracia”. Además, se aducen razones técnicas, las más importantes relacionadas con la seguridad y los virus. Según la nota publicada en The Inquirer, el proyecto durará dos años, comenzará en Septiembre, y la distribución escogida será SuSE Linux. [...]

    Pingback di Open Source y política » El Blog de Enrique Dans — 14 luglio 2007 @ 13:42

  17. Linked by downloadblog too ;) .

    Commento di Treviño — 14 luglio 2007 @ 13:47

  18. [...] Visto l’importanza della notizia (che finalmente pare rispettare il programma di Governo – dopo diversi erroracci), ho deciso di parlarne anche qui nonostante sia spesso restio a raccontare news di massa, ma anche di scrivere un articolo in inglese che spero possiate votare su digg (o diggare, se preferite) per dare una maggiore ampiezza a questa notizia anche a livello internazionale, dopo che è stata trattata quasi in sordina anche in Italia (quando ci si potrebbe vantare…). [...]

    Pingback di Linux prende possesso della Camera dei Deputati « Debianizziamoci !!! — 20 luglio 2007 @ 21:26

  19. Great! if my Ukrainian Parllament  will change Win on Linux, it will be great!emoticon

    Commento di Nickispeaki — 28 luglio 2007 @ 17:21

  20. [...] Italy Parliment (3,500) http://blog.3v1n0.net/linux-docs/italian-parliament-moves-to-linux/ [...]

    Pingback di Governments and Businesses Switching to Linux and Open Source… « SendDerek’s Blog — 23 settembre 2007 @ 18:00

  21. [...] Visto l’importanza della notizia (che finalmente pare rispettare il programma di Governo – dopo diversi erroracci), ho deciso di parlarne anche qui nonostante sia spesso restio a raccontare news di massa, ma anche di scrivere un articolo in inglese che spero possiate votare su digg (o diggare, se preferite) per dare una maggiore ampiezza a questa notizia anche a livello internazionale, dopo che è stata trattata quasi in sordina anche in Italia (quando ci si potrebbe vantare…). [...]

    Pingback di Linux alla Camera dei Deputati « Sudoaptget’s Weblog — 4 ottobre 2007 @ 23:19

  22. [...] read more | digg story [...]

    Pingback di The Italian Parliament Moves to Linux « Linux and Unix Top News — 11 ottobre 2007 @ 14:44

  23.  GNU/Linux il sistema operativo lassativo Open Source ahahhahah
     La prima domanda che ci viene in mente qual’è,pensando a un pinguino pieno di merda?
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    continua…
    http://jokerk21.altervista.org/forum/2xxcc/topic.php?forum=3&topic=1&start=1#1192270890
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    Commento di jokerk21 — 13 ottobre 2007 @ 13:19

  24. [...] parlarne anche qui nonostante sia spesso restio a raccontare news di massa, ma anche di scrivere un articolo in inglese che spero possiate votare su digg (o diggare, se preferite) per dare una maggiore ampiezza a questa [...]

    Pingback di MenteDigitale Security » Blog Archive » LINUX E POLITICA — 5 settembre 2009 @ 14:53

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