On January 30th, 2012, I started a petition requesting that the U.S. government broaden their use of Free Software and Open Source software to save money. I deeply believe that this one step is PART of the solution to the problem of the crushing national debt that the United States is currently facing. Software expenditures are a very small part of our national budget.
Read more »TLWIR BREAKING NEWS: GNU/Linux Petition Featured on WhiteHouse.gov!
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Extremadura CIO plans Linux rollout on 40,000 desktops
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The CIO of Spanish autonomous region Extremadura says it is planning to move the administration's 40,000 desktop systems to a Debian distribution.
Read more »Open Document Standards Mandatory in Hungarian Government
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Hungary's public administrations will by default use open document standards for their electronic documents, as of April this year, the government ministers agreed on 23 December, and all public organisations are encouraged to move to open source office tools. Hungary's government also in December decided to cancel the funding of proprietary office suite licences for all schools.
Read more »Helsinki city officials highly satisfied with Free Software
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City officials in Helsinki, Finland, are overwhelmingly satisfied after trying out the Free Software office suite OpenOffice.org on their laptops. 75% of 600 officials have been using OpenOffice.org exclusively since February, as part of a pilot project where the city installed the program on 22,500 workstations.
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Security vendors help covert agencies spy on their own citizens: WikiLeaks
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RMS: « Wikileaks has documented how governments around the world use digital technology for massive surveillance, through computers, GPS, and portable phones. »
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Portuguese government orders Open Sauce on older computers
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The Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) has told school boards across the country that it will not be shelling out huge amounts of dosh for Microsoft software this year.
It wants schools to keep their old computers and install free Linux software instead as part of an austerity measure.
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Petition to End Software Patents in the US
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On the White House's official website for petitioning the government, there is a petition to return sanity to the US software industry by overturning software patents.
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Russian President Medvedev asked to fund Windows clone
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A free, open-source Windows "clone" - ReactOS - that has been in development for over a decade has caught the eye of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
A student at a Russian high school the president visited recently gave Mr Medvedev a brief overview of the project - and asked him for 1m euros.
Read more »25,000 Danish hospital staff to move to LibreOffice
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A group of thirteen Copenhagen hospitals and their almost 25,000 workers will, over the next year, move to using LibreOffice, the community maintained and developed fork of the OpenOffice.org office suite.
Read more »Puglia region council to approve open source and standards law
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The council of the Italian region of Puglia is about to approve the law proposed last December that will make the use of open source and open standards mandatory for the region's public administrations, according to news reports.
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Russian President Proposes Creative Commons-Style Rules Baked Directly Into Copyright
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Glyn Moody now points us to the news that (Russian President) Medvedev appears to be going even further than just condemning today's copyright laws. He's now looking to adjust Russia's copyright laws in the other direction.
Read more »The European Commission’s locked-in syndrome
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EC migrates to windows 7, contracts made without public call for tender. Explanations confirm lock-in as motivation which is in contradiction with European procurement Directive. A black day for Europe.
Read more »Befragung zu Freier Software in Bremen: Parteien zeigen seltsames Wettbewerbsverständnis
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Nach den Befragungen in anderen Bundesländern, veröffentlichte heute die Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) die Ergebnisse ihrer Parteienumfrage zu Freier Software für die Bürgerschaftswahl in Bremen.
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European Parliamentarians participate in Document Freedom Day
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Members of the European Parliament and their assistants are participating in this year's Document Freedom Day, a 'grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general', according to an announcement on the organisation's website.
Read more »Ban the Microsoft "virus", government told
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Microsoft web software is like a computer virus in government computer systems and must be banned, a meeting of the British Computer Society's Open Source Specialist Group heard last week. Called by Home Office lead architect Tariq Rashid, the meeting formed part of an investigation into why government open source policy has floundered.
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