As tough economy lingers, open source touted as a way to save money, preserve IT projects
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The Linux Party
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The November election brings with it the promise of changes, new beginnings, and hope for those who've endured the past 8 years with less than an enthusiastic attitude. The choice of President and Vice President means far less to most of us than the people they choose for Cabinet positions.
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Parlez-vous le Linux?
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Not only do the French have a different word for everything, they also have a strong Open Source leadership position. The French have done much to foster the growth and acceptance of Open Source software--especially Linux.
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Number 10 and the Creative Commons
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Number 10’s new website, from our beloved government who are such strong users and supporters of Open Source Software [NOT], is running on Wordpress. This isn’t actually big news now. There’s plenty of comment about that on the web via Google.
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Poland: Ministry of Education recommends Open Source
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The Polish Ministry of National Education is advising schools and universities to use Open Source software. The recommendation comes at the end of a volunteer campaign to help schools switch to Open Source.
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The entire State of Pahang moves to OpenOffice.org
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Its just been made official that the State of Pahang is migrating all its productivity suites to OpenOffice.org.
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scuba diving trip
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Sunreef Five star PADI scuba diving facility on the wonderful Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia, specialising in scuba diving trips to the great barrier reef, exotic locations and the HMAS Brisbane Wreck.
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Open-source e-voting gets LinuxWorld test run
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Computer engineer Alan Dechert didn't like what he saw during the controversial vote tallying in Florida in 2000's presidential election.
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RSF launches Olympic human rights blog and “cyber-demonstration” outside virtual Olympic stadium
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"On the eve the Olympic Games opening ceremony in Beijing, Reporters Without Borders is today launching a blog about human rights in China during the games and the flip side of the Chinese government’s propaganda..."
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Cyber-censorship continues for Chinese-language websites
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"Reporters Without Borders condemns the continuing online censorship just two days before the Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony. The authorities unblocked access to certain websites on 1 August, including the Reporters Without Borders website, which had been inaccessible since 2003. But the Chinese-language versions of these sites still cannot be accessed..."
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Voltairenet.org being still down…
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"Thierry Meyssan recently announced that the Réseau Voltaire’s website had suffered attacks by Tsahal. The bad luck continues: voltairenet.org is currently inaccessible, thus depriving the readers of the article “Operation Sarkozy : how the CIA placed one of its agents at the presidency of the French Republic”. We reproduce below a copy of this particularly well documented article...."
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MS-OOXML: A format without a future?
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Judged by its technical merits, or common standards of interoperability and usefulness, OOXML is a dead duck. But Microsoft is first and foremost a successful marketing organisation with a long reach into government circles.
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Open standards key for SA govt - minister
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Open source software and open standards were high on the agenda at the opening of the GovTech 2008 conference in Durban this morning.
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GovTrack opens up information on US legislature
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Since 2004, GovTrack.us has housed information about the United States Congress, including 10 years of bills, voting records, and contact information for individual members of Congress.
Read more »Authoriterrorism and surveillance, the Brazilian way
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The Sarkozy Regime is pursuing the same strategy in Europe... To me, this is a great example of the the globalization of business power. And the World Trade Organization seems the perfect tool for our governments to impose their old culture...
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