The European Commission will take a more pro-active approach to its own use of Open Source and Open Standards. Xavier Heymans highlights the importance of a real and mature collaboration with communities where IT providers share their developments and adopt an "open source" philosophy.
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Brazilian government lists preferred Open Source applications
The Brazilian government wants its public administrations to check an Open Source reference guide before launching new IT projects.
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DK: Committee appointed to evaluate impact of Open Standards
The Danish government last Friday appointed five experts to evaluate the implementation of Open Standards in the country.
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Green Euro MP supports call for better access to open source software
European citizens have the right to freely access documents and information from the institutions which represent them, and it is about time that the use of open source software became more widespread.
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Korean Government Writes Digital Textbook on Linux
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.
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Why Ballmer got egged in Hungary
Here's an explanation of what was going on in Hungary and why Ballmer had eggs thrown at him: "A Hungarian Government bid, worth $25B Hungarian Forints, roughly $157M was allegedly skewed towards MS.
Read more »Cisco internal memo: Chinese censorship and surveillance are "opportunities"
RMS: «Cisco considered Chinese censorship and internet surveillance "opportunities" for business.» -- via RMS website
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Getting Open Source Right
In his rationalization about why government-mandated open source software deployment is not a good idea, Microsoft's Director of Standards made some assumptions about what the real value of open source software (OSS) is for governments.
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Those Dumb South Africans
Those dumb South Africans don’t just get it seems to be Microsoft’s senior director of interoperability’s Jason Matusow message in his blog posting of May 19th.
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Kenya Linux group challenges procurement policies
After losing out on many software tenders to the government, the Linux Professional Association (LPA) will engage the Public Procurement Oversight Authority (PPOA) in Kenya over procurement rules, according to the association chairman.
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Voting 2.0, Part 1: The Trouble With Closed Systems
What happens when there's a discrepancy in the vote count of an electronic voting machine? Can outside experts examine it and determine what went wrong? Chances are, the answer is no, because the companies that make the machines jealously guard their proprietary systems.
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Open source must co-op to win govt contracts
Open source players will need to swap baggy jeans for suits if they want to secure lucrative enterprise and government contracts, experts say.
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DHS report: Open-source code "quality" is up
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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Open source must co-op to win govt contracts
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.
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Lundy: Time is right for open source in government
Open source might get a better look-in within government, says Senator Kate Lundy, if those responsible for purchasing decisions were forced by policy to evaluate all the options on the market.
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