Das Beratungsgremium empfiehlt in einem Report die breitere Anwendung von Open Source Software. Der Bericht ist informativ, kurz gehalten und bringt die Dinge auf den Punkt:
"OSS has emerged as a powerful new way of generating knowledge and
economic value. The model can have profound educational benefits but,
even without taking advantage of the freedom offered by access to the
source, the non-proprietary status of open source software has huge
implications for affordable IT solutions in both the public and private
sectors. Open source may be poised to stimulate a new wave of
opportunities in IT.
Such access has the potential of empowering people in ways that
proprietary software (PS) does not allow. It offers users the choice to
probe, modify, learn from and customise the software, harnessing the
power of many small contributions from a large network of individuals to
suit their needs. OSS supports a rapid evolutionary process that
produces better products in less time than the traditional closed model."