Borough Council has scrapped the controversial 10-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) it signed with Microsoft in 2004 and drawn up a new agreement with a new set of deliverables.
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Funny Microsoft Business in UK Public Sector Just Got Funnier
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You might still recall a post from the other day which deals with corruption in procurement. It focused on the British public sector. “Corruption,” you say? That’s how it seems anyway. Newham now rebuts, but the rebuttal doesn’t seem to lend much credibiily
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Will France Introduce the Digital Guillotine in Europe?
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"...In contrast to the French solution, the Swedish government has rejected such a regime as disproportionate.
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Sarkozy’s broadband tax plan snagged by Eurocrats
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"THE EU COMMISSION has warned that France’s quest for universal internet access would be hampered by a presidential proposal to tax broadband usage. The plan is to supplement the licence fee for public broadcast television and radio which has a funding shortfall due to the decision to abolish advertising in order to 'raise standards'..."
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Quick Mention: Microsoft Intersection with the United States Government
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We previously pointed out, backed by fairly extensive evidence, that Microsoft has a high level of influence and control over the government, especially the Department of Injustice [sic]. Intel is a similar story that is related to that of Microsoft.
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from power to the people, to power online corporations?
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With out taking sides on the matter and only focusing on the fact that yahoo will give confidential information to a government, in this particular case to a foreign government. In April 2004, the Chinese journalist Shi Tao used his Yahoo! email account to send a message to a U.S.-based pro-democracy website. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison
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Ending digital exclusion by digital enslavement
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Another incident of Microsoft's software dumping strategy has been spotted in the UK. This time they're dumping 4500 "senior PCs" (later to be scaled up to 10000) containing software licensed under a "social software model" (whatever that means).
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Kerala Blazing the Trail for FOSS in Schools
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Kerala is all set to become the first state in the country to completely banish Microsoft and allow only GNU/Linux free software to be used in the mandatory IT test at the state SSLC examinations that half a million students took in March. Till last year, they could take the exam using either free software or the Microsoft platform. Not anymore'.
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Stop Using Windows, Use Linux
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There's a world food crisis right now, as we all know it. Man's most basic need is low on supply but high in demand. This recent global predicament may not be felt that much in highly developed countries like the US and Japan, but developing country like ours and underdeveloped countries like most of Africa are struggling for survival.
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Open Standards and Open Source in Public Administrations
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Participative democracy relies increasingly on the ability of citizens and stakeholders to access public information and to communicate with officials and elected politicians electronically. To highlight the impact of open standards on democracy, the Greens/European Free Alliance organized a half day event at the European Parliament in Brussels on April 17, 2008.
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Linux and the tax office: never the twain shall meet
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Why would a government body offer trial software for small and other businesses which use the GNU/Linux operating system, take it offline when the interest in it grows and keep quiet about it thereafter?
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Homeland Security Helps Reduce Open Source Flaws
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Two years into the effort, new report sheds light on how effective your tax dollars have been at improving open source security.
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Lundy: Time is right for open source in government
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Open source might get a better look-in within government, says Senator Kate Lundy, if those responsible for purchasing decisions were forced by policy to evaluate all the options on the market.
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Open source must co-op to win govt contracts
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Google architect Grant Allen joined Labor Senator Kate Lundy and analyst Sam Higgins at Open Cebit 2008 to debate how the open source community can compete with software giants in a market geared to splurging millions on IT in return for SLAs and vendor liability.
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DHS report: Open-source code "quality" is up
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A U.S. Department of Homeland Security-sponsored project has not only discovered that the quality of open source software code has improved significantly over the past two years, it has debunked a widely held assumption that longer function strings within source code are associated with an increased number of code defects.
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