The vague distinction between embedded and non-embedded software leaves room for Microsoft to harm Free software in New Zealand; Microsoft's software patents still pushed into GNU/Linux via Novell
Read more »Why New Zealand Should Also Abolish Patents on ‘Embedded Software’
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CIA Software Developer Goes Open Source, Instead
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For three years, Matthew Burton has been trying to get a simple, useful software tool into the hands of analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency. For three years, haggling over the code’s intellectual property rights has kept the software from going anywhere near Langley.
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Military Adoption of Open-Source Software May Increase Flexibility and Lower Cost
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are helping the U.S. military analyze and develop the advantages of open-source software -- programs that make their source code open to others so it can be changed and improved. Bringing many minds to bear on a given program can lead to software that is both high quality and low cost, or even free.
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Switching from Windows to Linux PC's; a response to the BP oil spill?
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Linux is being pushed as an alternative to Windows XP in the Government's hard push towards spending cuts in the public sector, ie. Government offices.
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Open Source for America Celebrates its First Anniversary with Awards
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Last summer, a new organization was announced with the goal of promoting the uptake of open source software by the U.S. federal government. Now that organization has completed its first quite successful year of operations.
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Puglia region makes open source and standards mandatory
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The Italian region Puglia will make the use of open source software and open standards mandatory for its public administrations. A law, adopted on 2 December by the regional administration, instructs regional and local public administrations to use open formats for the electronic disseminations of documents, and wherever possible use free and open source software.
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Spain grovels to penguins over "Linux" anti-terror plot
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The Spanish Ministry of the Interior has expressed its regret that an international crackdown on IT masterminds inside the violent Basque separatist group ETA was dubbed "Operation Linux". Apparently, penguin-loving outfits are complaining that the antiterrorist operation sullies their good name.
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US federal government open source report card
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Open Source for America has released their study of which departments in the federal government are most open source aware and friendly. The results may surprise you.
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NASA's Open Source Summit 2011
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On March 29 & 30, NASA will host its first Open Source Summit at Ames Research Center in Mountain View California.
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A bright Document Freedom Day for Britain?
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As companies and communities come together to raise awareness of Open Standards for the forth consecutive Document Freedom Day, the issue of freedom from restricted digital files is more relevant in the UK than ever. "Britain's relationship with Open Standards is rapidly changing for the better.
Read more »Portugal: Open standards become prerequisite for government IT
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Portugal's parliament adopted a law last Wednesday requiring the country's public administrations to use open standards, including for their electronic documents. Portugal's government organisations will now be required to implement open standards in all digital documents that they publish, exchange, and archive.
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Brazilian government signs up to develop OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice
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The Brazilian government has signed a letter of intent to work with both The Document Foundation and the Apache OpenOffice.org community to develop the Office Suite platforms maintained by both communities. The letter asserts that the ODF standard is already a guarantee of interoperability within the government.
Read more »UN ICT agency asks world yoof, geeks for great tech ideas
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[Even if there were no prize, this would be a great advocacy opportunity for the FLOSS community to change the world. And we work with (or are) NPO's, too.]
As part of its revamp, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is asking yoof and geeks to submit world-changing ideas, 60 of which will earn their entrants a trip to Geneva to pitch them to "industry leaders".
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Indian Parliamentary Committee Trashes UID Bill
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"India's Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, a cross-party body created to study Bills being presented for consideration in Parliament, yesterday trashed NIAI Bill which seeks to set up a National Information Authority, whose job is to take over the functioning of the ordinated Unique Identity Authority of India(UIDAI), a branch of the Planning Commission.
Read more »Assange the senator would champion free media
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In his first interview since declaring his intention to stand for the Senate at the next election, Mr Assange said he planned to be a defender of liberty and ''the right of citizens … to live lives free from state interference''.
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