Phenomena of Open Source and Slovenia's Adaption

Although free open source libre (FLOSS) software is increasing its presence in the media and in debates between IT professionals, and although even citizens in general are starting to talk about it, FLOSS is still in general quite an unknown quantity. But this is changing. There is more and more interest in open source software by general users and also its influence on the public and business sector is undeniable. What is open source? Where did it all start? How is Slovenia using open source? What have we learned? Where are the opportunities for FLOSS? These are the sort of questions we will try to answer in this document. Slovenia implemented some of the important steps in introducing open source, however we are still far behind in terms of open source adoption and great opportunities exist for its better use in future.