Hungarian Parliament has made the use of open standards mandatory by law in the
intercommunication between public administration offices, public utility companies, citizens and
voluntarily joining private companies, conducted via the central governmental system.

For open source and Linux, 2009 has been another year of big and surprising milestones, from the White House adopting open source technology to Microsoft submitting code for the Linux kernel."

The French Gendarmerie Nationale police contributed to the code of the last version of Mozilla Thunderbird with security extensions named "TrustedBird".

Last week I wrote about the curious case of Mr Kallas, vice president of the European Commission. He seemed to have problems with the word “open”, imagining that this meant “unprotected”, judging by his comment

Schools across Nicaragua are the latest part of this nation which is being digitally liberated

Opportunity is knocking in the government market for Canonical's Landscape, a systems management and monitoring tool for Ubuntu systems. Specifically, Autonomic Resources - an integrator that serves the U.S. federal government - is now approved to offer Landscape to government customers running Ubuntu, WorksWithU has learned. Here are some quick details.

Caltech/NASA/JPL have a new website aiming to drive interest in the Mars project. The problem is that Microsoft designed the site, using Silverlight, which isn't compatible with Free Operating Systems.

"OpenOffice will be cheaper to maintain and will run better than Microsoft's proprietary alternative", expects Lars Roark, IT manager at the Danish municipality of Rødovre, according to reports in Danish media. According to Business DK, the Rødovre municipality has kept its move to OpenOffice under wraps, fearing criticism from Microsoft.