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OSL - the Danish Open Source Business Association The Danish Open Source Business Association is an association of and for enterprises, who base their products, solutions and services upon the use of open source and/or open standards.
The purpose of OSL "... is to work in the interest of suppliers of open source software by promoting an open well-functioning market for development, sale and licensing of open source software to private as well as public sector customers based on open standards."
OSL wishes to promote a genuine market based choice between different types of software development and licensing in order to make the choice of open source software based on quality, price, usability and suitability. The association will work to secure a genuine choice of IT-architecture in the public as well as the private sector.
Nobody should be locked to one single vendor in order to communicate with the national authorities. This is the reason for OSL involvement in the struggle to put open source and proprietary solutions on an equal footing and making open source software available in public procurement of IT.
According to the articles of the association, OSL will also be working along the same guidelines in an international context.
The Definition of Open Source Software
OSL is, at any given time, using the concept of open source software as defined by the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
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