La Bell'Italia

Italy is famous for its glorious art, fine food, and friendly people; maybe we should add “enlightened uptake of open source” to that list. Here are two more data points....

On Open Enterprise blog.

When in Rome

Even if we don't necessarily want to copy everything the Italians do (the approach to rubbish disposal in Naples, for example), this is certainly something we can learn from:

100 Italian candidates signed Assoli’s letter engaging themselves to promote the use of free software.

I wonder what would happen here in the UK if we tried something similar? At least John Pugh would sign it....