Elections and FLOSS

Hi everyone, I was surprised to discover FLOSS appearing in
Labour's election platform.  The Greens mention it too, but I
couldn't find any reference on the National website.  Anyone have
any knowledge where they stand on the matter?

Labour's discussion was pretty lengthy, including these two
highlights:

    Require that when the government pays for software to be created,
    it will be owned by the government, and will be shared within
    government and with the public using an open source license.

    Require agencies considering new technology purchases over $2
    million to first evaluate whether existing publicly available
    technology substantially meets their business requirements,
    and the cost of changing their processes to adapt to the
    existing technology.

http://blog.labour.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ICT-policy.pdf


The Greens were much briefer:

    Free, Open Source software is a great way of making
    technology available to as many New Zealanders as possible,
    and helps us to help ourselves, rather than being stuck with
    what huge multinationals have to offer.

http://www.greens.org.nz/ict

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