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.

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.

RMS: «Cisco considered Chinese censorship and internet surveillance "opportunities" for business.» -- via RMS website

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.

The Danish government last Friday appointed five experts to evaluate the implementation of Open Standards in the country.

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.

The Bulgarian government will turn more and more to Open Source software, predicts Krasimir Panayotov, coordinator of the GNU/Linux User Group in the city of Rousse, the country's fifth-largest city.