Several governments and councils reported multi-year migration plans to GNU/Linux. Free software activists praised each one of them in their blogs and commentaries. However, a few months or years on, some of those plans crumbled. Vienna is one of them. A question here begs to be answered: why did it happen?
Read more »Vienna failed to migrate to GNU/Linux: why?
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Net Neutrality Take 2
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The last time Net Neutrality was taken up by congress, a concerned citizen felt it necessary to voice his opinion to his local representative.
He forwarded me the response he received in hopes I would share it with you dear readers.
Feel free to scroll down, click and read the whole thing, it is an excellent example of political speech and passing the buck.
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Cisco internal memo: Chinese censorship and surveillance are "opportunities"
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RMS: «Cisco considered Chinese censorship and internet surveillance "opportunities" for business.» -- via RMS website
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Linux is ready
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Why Linux? Well, the answer to this question was given in detail by PK Mishra, Senior Consulting Architect, Novell India in his presentation titled ‘Linux for eGovernance solution.’ In this session, he explained where and how Linux can be used and how it is absolutely ready for government as well as enterprises. According to him, cost, choice, security and reliability along with standards, peer review, freedom, flexibility, no lock in, TCO, reuse, and ROI are some of the significant advantages of using Linux.
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French police deal blow to Microsoft
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The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest administrations in the world to make the break.
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Windows makes possible place for Linux in Amsterdam
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Officials of the City of Amsterdam to work within a few years probably no longer with Windows. A test has shown that the open source software Linux performs better.
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Open Access bill vetoed
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Supporters of the open access movement (OA), the open-source-inspired community that promotes free access to academic research, are disappointed but not discouraged by the defeat of a bill that would have required research published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States to be available to the public.
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Can Linux Stage a Coup D'Etat?
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In some countries' governments, the use of Linux is often viewed as a cultural thing. Linux is closely aligned with the concept that software should be free. "In Europe, governments take open source very seriously. They have a fear of being locked into one vendor," said Paul Smith, vice president of government sales operations for Red Hat. "Linux gives governments leverage against the fear of being controlled."
Read more »Member of Parliament Patrick Harvie Talks to KDE
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The final talk on Saturday at Akademy 2007 was from Patrick Harvie, a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Green Party. While not a technical wizard like most of the other talks of the day, Patrick was able to describe to us the attitudes to free software from the Government he is elected to keep an eye on, and how the work of KDE developers applies to more than just software.
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Work Progressing on Army's Future Combat Systems
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A Washington Post update on the progress of Future Combat Systems, the U.S. Army's Linux-based operating environment that has been under development for several years..."Boeing and the Army said they chose not to use Microsoft's proprietary software because they didn't want to be beholden to the company. Instead, they chose to develop a Linux-based operating system based on publicly available code."
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Use of Open Source software requires no European IT tenders
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European public administrations that want to use software that is offered for free, such as Open Source software, do not need to organise a call for tender.
Read more »Allahabad High Court Deploys 15,000 GNU/Linux laptops
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According to this story, the Allahabad High Court has rolled out a new website, as well as deploying 15,000 laptops running GNU/Linux. The site does not specify which distribution, but I am assuming a GNOME-centric distribution, since Evolution is listed as the PIM software.
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"Chennai-based National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) is planning to bring its programme on free/open source software to Gujarat though a possible collaboration with engineering colleges in the state."
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Bulgaria: 'Government's increasing use of Open Source inevitable'
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The Bulgarian government will turn more and more to Open Source software, predicts Krasimir Panayotov, coordinator of the GNU/Linux User Group in the city of Rousse, the country's fifth-largest city.
Read more »OLPC Makes its Entry Into India--Finally
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as things have worked out, OLPC has already made an entry into India in the form of a pilot project in a rural primary school in a village in the state of Maharasthra.
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