The French Parliament votes a legislation that gives priority to Free Software

[Tsiolkovsky]

http://www.april.org/en/first-time-france-parliament-votes-legislation-gives-priority-free-software

[forkrulassail]

Some other countries have also looked at this.

http://www.sita.co.za/FOSS/FOSS1.html

A policy alone doesn't seem to help, as can be seen here: http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...

Legislation might be a better approach. I couldn't find the exact numbers now, but a country like RSA sends around 1 billion US out of the country for software licenses yearly.

[kimlelly]

Munich has not only migrated its administration to open source solutions, but even sends its citizens open source OS CDs.

People slowly begin to understand, it seems.