Embers from the fiery debate over the International Organisation for Standardisation's (ISO) acceptance of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) file format as an international standard refuse to die out in India.
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FR: Education Ministry encourages Open Source use
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The department at the French Ministry of Education that is handling purchasing of software and software licenses is increasing its Open Source offerings to some 1.5 million teachers and education workers in 250 institutes France.
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Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns
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"Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns collects and distills successful techniques in planning a reengineering project, reverse-engineering, problem detection, migration strategies and software redesign.
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Open source doesn't make Gartner's "top-ten" list
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Perhaps the biggest news in Gartner's latest "Top 10 Technologies" report is the absence of open source. Or perhaps its omnipresence.
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Valve Source Engine to hit Linux soon?
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An upcoming game, Postal III is slated to have Windows, Mac and Linux ports. This game is designed using the Valve Source Engine. This is probably one of the strongest points, how are they going to make a Mac and Linux port without OpenGL? Clearly something is afoot. ;)
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Brazilian government lists preferred Open Source applications
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The Brazilian government wants its public administrations to check an Open Source reference guide before launching new IT projects.
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More Fun With Security Through Obfuscation On Linux And Unix
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More ways you can make your scripts more difficult to understand using Perl on Linux and Unix.
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Open Source Forum Shootout - PunBB
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Welcome back to the open source forum shootout, here at FOSSwire. In this part, I’m going to take a look at PunBB. Like all of the other forum solutions I’ve covered so far in this series, PunBB is written in PHP. The current stable is 1.2.17, and development work is being done on the 1.3 branch. For now, I’ll take a look at 1.2.17.
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Summary of Latest Intellectual Waste
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We take a look at various new reports that demonstrate the severity of a growing problem and non-scientific distraction.
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Party With Ubuntu
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Ubuntu Tamil Team gave a Pary at Chennai to celebrate its Third year. Here is the review and snaps of the event.
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Novell’s Bold Mission to Clean Up ‘Unlicensed’ GNU/Linux
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Novell's battle is not against Windows but partly against those who are currently liberated from Windows (and free of charge).
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #93
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #93 for the week May 25th - May 31st, 2008. In this issue we cover: new Ubuntu Membership approval process, new Ubuntu Members, new LoCo approval process, LinuxTag 2008, Launchpad 1.2.5, Launchpod episode #3, Forum Tutorial of the week, Ubuntu UK Podcast #6, Full Circle Magazine #13, Team Reports, and much, much more!
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Is Novell Ignoring Critical Security Problems?
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Official Danish complaint to ISO
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The organazation OSL (www.osl.dk) (Danish organazation of OpenSource vendors) has officially posted a complaint to ISO (and Danish Standards). The complaint is regarding the process in the Danish National Body.
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