More than 100 candidates to Italian regional elections that will take place at the end of this month officially support Free Software and have committed to actively promote it if elected. Many of them are in smaller parties with smaller probability to get a seat, but for Italy it's a good result anyway.
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LiMux project management, "We were naïve"
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Florian Schießl, deputy head of the Munich-based LiMux project for migrating the city's public administration to Linux, has been explaining why migrating the computing landscape to open source software has taken longer than originally planned. One reason cited is the proprietary world's "digital waste"
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Open Source Gets Political
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As an election looms in the UK, copyright, intellectual property and Open Source, are making an appearance on the political stage, both at home and internationally.
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LiMux review 2009
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There are again some rumors about LiMux' dead here in Munich. I don't want to comment on the origin of them, but to the responsible company: This doesn't work out. LiMux is more alive than ever and the story goes on very well....LiMux has achieved one very important goal.
Read more »Conroy's internet censorship agenda slammed by tech giants
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Australia's biggest technology companies, communications academics and many lobby groups have delivered a withering critique of the government's plans to censor the internet.
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BLOSSOMS: Jordan Chooses Open Education for High Schools
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Jordanian Minister of Education, Ibrahim Badran, announced Jordan's intention to start BLOSSOMS II in ten selected high schools of the kingdom. BLOSSOMS (Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies) is an Open-education initiative started by MIT in partnership with Jordan and Pakistan.
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Articles of regional law about Free Software violate Italian Constitution
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The Italian Constitutional Court just published its decision: two articles of a 2009 Italian regional law that promotes Free Software and open digital standards violate the Italian Constitution. It will be VERY interesting now to find how many other local laws (both in Italy and in OTHER countries) have similar problems...
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Open letter for Romanian Ministry of Communications and IT
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Open letter to Minister of Communications and Information, An initiative group to support the seven principles to achieve an open eRomania (500 million euro project)
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Italian Court OKs Preference for Open Source
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Here's a big win for open source: the Italian Constitutional Court has approved a law in Piedmont giving preference to open source, ruling that it is not anti-competitive...
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Red Star OS spotted in North Korea
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SOME DETAILS about North Korea's much rumoured Red Star operating system are slowly starting to emerge.
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New Zealand’s Software Industry Under Attack by the ‘Patent Leeches’
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Leeches in suits are trying to block a policy that would enable Free software developers to build the country's infrastructure in peace
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Republicans Turn to Open Source Asterisk
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Open source software is being used today by all types of companies and organizations - even the Republican Party is an adopter.
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The Digital Economy bill
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The controversial Digital Economy Bill has been passed into law during the wash-up period, which sees outstanding legislation rushed through before a general election.
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Obama open sources custom White House code
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Dave Cole, a senior advisor to the CIO of the Executive Office of the President, announced the code release this afternoon during a keynote at the DrupalCon trade show in downtown San Francisco.
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WhiteHouse.gov open sources custom Drupal code
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During a keynote speech at this year's DrupalCon in San Francisco, David Cole, a Senior Advisor to the CIO of the Executive Office of the President, announced that the US Presidential web site developers are contributing some of their custom code to the Drupal project
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