Colombia doesn’t usually get as much attention regarding free software in Latin America, largely because the federal government lags behind their regional neighbors in embracing open source.
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Fedora as Basis of Russia's Operating System?
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A few days ago in Minkomsvyazi Russia held a meeting with the head of the Russian Federation Minkomsvyazi IO Schegolev and Director of the European division, vice-president of the corporation Red Hat Werner Knobliha.During the meeting it was announced that the development of free software in Russia - one of the main directions of the Ministry.
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British Conservative Shadow Chancellor backs "Open Source"! Again. But don't get Excited
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If you have ever read any of the articles I have written on Free Software Magazine you might just have noticed that my opinion of politicians is lower than a limbo dancer's pole. A brief brush with political activism many years ago left me with a deep and visceral distrust and dislike of everything political and a determination never to become entangled with politics ever again.
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Linux and Creating a Custom Distribution for Everything
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More and more, governments are deciding to make the switch to open-source software, usually citing or implying privacy concerns over Microsoft Windows, since Microsoft is a US company.
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RIAA and BSA's Favorite Lawyers Taking Top Department of Justice Posts
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RIAA-fan Biden's influence in the Obama administration may be larger than anticipated, at least when it comes to file sharing: His good pals with RIAA and BSA connections keep getting Department of Justice's seats.
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Tories ignoring open-source security risk
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The British Conservative Party was wrong to slate the U.K. Government for its approach to open source, and U.S. outfit Fortify Software has come up with research to prove it. The bottom line: open source is just too risky anyway.
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Canadian Government Considers Open Source
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Canada has a Request for Information (RFI) related to No-Charge Licensed Software (typically referred to as Free and Open Source Software or FOSS and also applicable to freeware). For the purpose of the RFI, No Charge Licensed Software means Licensed Software that is available at no charge for the Licensed Software and is typically made available as a free download from the Internet.
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Now Brazil Goes Big on the GNU/Linux Desktop
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At the end of last year I wrote about a big Brazilian project to provide 150,000 GNU/Linux notebooks for schools. Now the Brazilian Ministry of Education has topped that by ordering 324,000 "green" workstations running on GNU/Linux (although I can't quite tell whether this is as well as or instead of - anyone know?).
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IBM to build massive supercomputer for U.S. government
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The U.S. government has hired IBM to build a supercomputer [Sequoia] with more power than all the supercomputers on the Top500 supercomputer list combined. Sequoia will use approximately 1.6 million processing cores, all IBM Power chips, running Linux, which dominates high-performance computing at this scale.
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The Natural Trend Towards Open-Source in Government
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Every time you turn around, it seems like another government is considering using open-source software as an alternative to expensive proprietary software. While the progress has been slow, as it usually is with governments, the trend is obvious.
In fact, not only is it obvious, but it's also very logical. Think about it...
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Defense Department sets up its own SourceForge
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The dam holding back U.S. federal adoption of open source just burst with the introduction of the Defense Department's Forge.mil.
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Mom, apple pie and open source
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Whenever I make a real egregious error here, like confusing FOSS with open source, I can usually count on a short e-mail from Richard Stallman, dear old RMS himself. So I hope he forgives me going all Richard Stallman on the Obama Administration.
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Tories put faith in open-source procurement
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The Conservative Party has published a new report on government open-source IT procurement, claiming that the recommendations would save tax payers' money.
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A glimmer of hope from whitehouse.gov
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Politicians in general are not terribly tech-savvy, let alone conscious of the most important intellectual freedom issues, but President Barack Obama does have a reputation of being more aware than most of the new media and new possibilities of the internet. The new US presidential website shows some promise that indeed, we now have a US president who isn't afraid of the future.
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EU proposal puts confidential communications data at risk
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«Civil liberties groups La Quadrature du Net, European Digital Rights (EDRi), AK Vorrat, and Netzpolitik.org are urging the European Parliament to heed advice given by the European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx and scrap plans dubbed "voluntary data retention"...»
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