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1. 1. UK local government lags behind in open source - ZDNet UK News

   news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linu - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/5/2006   Last Visited: 4/5/2006

   Mark Bressers, a programme manager at OSOSS, speaking at the conference, said it has tackled many misconceptions about open source software, such as the view that it is free of charge and therefore not compatible with a capitalist society.

2. 2. www.mmbase.org

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   Published on: 5/7/2006   Last Visited: 3/25/2007

   Marc Bressers is program manager of OSOSS (Open Standards en Open Source Software for the government), a platform for open source knowledge exchange. OSOSS works together with the MMBase community. MMBase is already used by many governmental institutions and many more are taking the use of MMBase into consideration, explains Bressers.
   
   According to Bressers some policy makers in governmental and educational institutions and companies are still prejudice against open source software. The general idea is that Open source software has an idealistic approach and that the software is not suitable for (semi-)commercial use. Changing this view is one of the major tasks of the OSOSS, which programmes inform governmental institutions about the use and development of open source applications
   
   Governmental institutions that use open source are, according to Bressers, generally positive and try to increase their participation in this field.

3. 3. Wizard of OS: Mark Bressers

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   Published on: 7/17/2004   Last Visited: 8/16/2006

   Sprecher / A - C / Mark Bressers
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   Mark Bressers
   
   Mark studied Public Administration at the University of Nijmegen. From 1996 to 2000 he worked at the National Agency for Monuments and Sites.
   
   From 2000 until 2002 Mark was a senior advisor and substitute programme manager for the programme Public Counter 2000, part of the Dutch organisation for e-government ( ICTU). As project leader Mark was also responsible for setting up the Dutch Consumerportal, a web portal which provides information about consumer rights.
   
   Since 2003 Mark is responsible for the Dutch programme Open Standards and Open Source software in government (OSOSS).
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   Mark Bressers Program Manager, Open Standards and Open Source Software (OSOSS), ICTU Open Source eGovernment Center, Den Haag