Open letter to Minister of Communications and Information, An initiative group to support the seven principles to achieve an open eRomania (500 million euro project)
Read more »Open letter for Romanian Ministry of Communications and IT
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Articles of regional law about Free Software violate Italian Constitution
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The Italian Constitutional Court just published its decision: two articles of a 2009 Italian regional law that promotes Free Software and open digital standards violate the Italian Constitution. It will be VERY interesting now to find how many other local laws (both in Italy and in OTHER countries) have similar problems...
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BLOSSOMS: Jordan Chooses Open Education for High Schools
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Jordanian Minister of Education, Ibrahim Badran, announced Jordan's intention to start BLOSSOMS II in ten selected high schools of the kingdom. BLOSSOMS (Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies) is an Open-education initiative started by MIT in partnership with Jordan and Pakistan.
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Conroy's internet censorship agenda slammed by tech giants
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Australia's biggest technology companies, communications academics and many lobby groups have delivered a withering critique of the government's plans to censor the internet.
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LiMux review 2009
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There are again some rumors about LiMux' dead here in Munich. I don't want to comment on the origin of them, but to the responsible company: This doesn't work out. LiMux is more alive than ever and the story goes on very well....LiMux has achieved one very important goal.
Read more »Open Source Gets Political
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As an election looms in the UK, copyright, intellectual property and Open Source, are making an appearance on the political stage, both at home and internationally.
Read more »LiMux project management, "We were naïve"
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Florian Schießl, deputy head of the Munich-based LiMux project for migrating the city's public administration to Linux, has been explaining why migrating the computing landscape to open source software has taken longer than originally planned. One reason cited is the proprietary world's "digital waste"
Read more »More than 100 italian political candidates support FOSS
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More than 100 candidates to Italian regional elections that will take place at the end of this month officially support Free Software and have committed to actively promote it if elected. Many of them are in smaller parties with smaller probability to get a seat, but for Italy it's a good result anyway.
Read more »Time to Learn from China on Open Standards?
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Europe should be learning from China's example, not sending patronising nastygrams that just makes it look petulant and anachronistic.
Read more »Government Should Avoid Proprietary Software and ‘Clouds’
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Reporters wonder if Vivek Kundra (national CIO) can resist the temptation to just hand over government operations to private companies, some of which are abusive and dangerous to sovereignty
Read more »US eases sanctions to allow freer web
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The US treasury department has eased sanctions on Iran, Cuba and Sudan to help further the use of web services and support opposition groups.
Read more »Red Star OS, a Linux Distro Made in North Korea
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North Korea has been discovered developing its own Linux distro named Red Star OS. To make it even more interesting, it is said to be commissioned by the infamous Kim Jong-il.
Read more »Special 301: FOSS users. Now we're all Communists and Criminals
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There seems to be no respite from the predations of Microsoft FUD and the machinations of Big Business. Just when it seemed safe to come out of the closet and admit to being a user of free and open source software without being accused of being a Communist, it appears that we are now criminals too—even if we are not using pirated versions of proprietary software.
Read more »North Korea Develops Own Linux Distribution
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North Korea has reportedly developed its own version of the Linux operating with a graphical user interface that closely resembles Microsoft Windows.
Read more »EFF: Unintended Consequences - Twelve Years Under the DMCA
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Twelve years after the passage of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the law continues to stymie fair use, free speech, scientific research, and legitimate competition.
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