Liga Krapane said in a telephonic interview that the prime minister had signed in a resolution as to evaluate the possibility that exists on the use of open source software. She said that this thing has been done for just one purpose which is to save some money.

The resolution was recently signed by the Prime Minister, Valdis Dombrovskis, and has its aim to find an opportunity that can be financial and legal too to switch the state in totality or in parts for using the operating systems or software, which are not made by the US Microsoft Corporation.

The proposal that singles out Microsoft Corporation angered the Latvian Information and Communications Technology Association which is a group representing the information and technology firms in Latvia.

This association said to the Dombrovskis' government, in an open letter, that the state must not start fighting Microsoft or any other such company, rather it should use information technology to increase the effectiveness of government's apparatus. Latvia's nation of 2.3 million people has been hit by global recession and this year its economy is expected to contract by 18%.