Another important sign of ODF adoption; OpenOffice.org team impressed with download pace
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Why Microsoft hates Google’s Android
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Richard Monson-Haefel, an analyst at the Burton group, just posted a sarcastic and inaccurate analysis of Android on the company’s blog. In his article, called “Why Microsoft Loves Google’s Android“, Monson-Haefel claims that Microsoft should be “secretly celebrating” Google’s introduction of Android.
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DHS report: Open-source code "quality" is up
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A U.S. Department of Homeland Security-sponsored project has not only discovered that the quality of open source software code has improved significantly over the past two years, it has debunked a widely held assumption that longer function strings within source code are associated with an increased number of code defects.
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Uruguay State University Standardizes on ODF [Spanish]
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The Central Board of Directors approved the document "Standards file format office" presented by the Commission Sector Development Computer recommends that the use of open standards ODF and PDF for the creation, storage and exchange of documents in the office and udelen in its relationship with the rest of society.
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Sarkozy’s broadband tax plan snagged by Eurocrats
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"THE EU COMMISSION has warned that France’s quest for universal internet access would be hampered by a presidential proposal to tax broadband usage. The plan is to supplement the licence fee for public broadcast television and radio which has a funding shortfall due to the decision to abolish advertising in order to 'raise standards'..."
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SSC to release portal code under GPL
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Open Source Society president Don Christie's blog, on Stuff, is reporting the State Services Commission has agreed to release the code for the new New Zealand government portal under the open source GPL licence.
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How public money should not be spent
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The article is in portuguese and is about a decision of the portuguese government to decided to launch a conflict mediation court on Second Life.
It would be interesting if our country had a spectacular justice system that worked.
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NSW education downgrades Microsoft deal
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The NSW Department of Education has put Microsoft on notice after it agreed to extend its software licensing agreement with the company for just one year instead of renegotiating a new three-year contract.
Read more »Commentary - Your Second Economic Stimulus Check Is On Its Way
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"[...]One of Obama's first executive acts may be to standardize all Federal offices to OpenOffice.org[...]The effect of this is a second economic stimulus check. You get increased productivity at lower cost."
Read more »Homeland Security Helps Reduce Open Source Flaws
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Two years into the effort, new report sheds light on how effective your tax dollars have been at improving open source security.
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Will France Introduce the Digital Guillotine in Europe?
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"...In contrast to the French solution, the Swedish government has rejected such a regime as disproportionate.
Read more »Can we give every school child in the UK a Linux notebook and still save money?
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The simple answer is 'yes' we could do it now and we will save the taxpayer millions of pounds.
Read more »Korean Government Writes Digital Textbook on Linux
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The government-led Korean digital textbook project will adopt Linux. The Ministry of Knowledge Economy and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Korea announced their decision to choose the open software for digital textbook, the key project for the government's digital education policy.
Read more »Open source must co-op to win govt contracts
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Google architect Grant Allen joined Labor Senator Kate Lundy and analyst Sam Higgins at Open Cebit 2008 to debate how the open source community can compete with software giants in a market geared to splurging millions on IT in return for SLAs and vendor liability.
Read more »The AFNOR Affair: Interview with Frédéric Couchet, Ex. Dir. APRIL (and Dir. FSF France)
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"The AFNOR Affair: Interview with Frédéric Couchet of APRIL on OOXML in France ~ by Sean Daly ..." -- According to Wikipedia France, he's also president of FSF France:-( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSF_France
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