Danish government agency opts for open source
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The country's Ministry of Finance chooses JBoss on Linux over Microsoft's BizTalk to run a key system.
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Microsoft's defeat in a European appeals courtÂ Monday has left open-source developers hopeful about the future although still dissatisfied with the company's compliance with a 3-year-old antitrust ruling.
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Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry will consider company's open-source desktop suite for future bids.
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Linux advocates have long insisted that open-source development results in better and more secure software. Now they have statistics to back up their claims.
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InfoWorld - Red Hat&#160;is to help the communist government of Kerala, in southwestern India, to deploy open-source software in its e-governance and literacy efforts.
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Quiet but widely-used open source developer OpenAds secures new financing.
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Advocates for open government are creating search engines and websites to let citizens peek into the inner workings of official agencies. Now more than ever, they say, openness is essential to self-government. By Ryan Singel.
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MPs say schools being denied open source Nineteen MPs have accused a government agency of restricting the procurement of software in schools.â¦
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The new Open Source Software Resource Centre will be funded with $1.2 million over three years and will try to promote open-source software by establishing a portal for exchanging information on the subject and initiating proof-of-concept projects.
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It&#39;s called the International Open Source Network (IOSN), which is an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with a primary goal to promote Free and Open Source (FOSS) software usage.
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The Dutch government has set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software Â freely distributed programs that anyone can modify Â the Netherlands Economic Affairs Ministry said Thursday.
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In what may be the first action of its kind in the U.S., a lawsuit has been filed to enforce an open-source license.
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(InfoWorld) - Red HatÂ is to help the communist government of Kerala, in southwestern India, to deploy open-source software in its e-governance and literacy efforts. The Kerala government will make all efforts to develop free software, and will use free and open-source software in e-governance projects, according to a draft state IT policy released in January. The state of Kerala has also decided to promote free and open-source software in education, butÂ will not make it compulsory, M.A. Baby education minister in the Kerala governmentÂ said in an interview in August. Now Red Hat has agreed to train the technical staff of various government organizations to help them develop and maintain open-source applications, the company said Tuesday. Red Hat will also train schoolteachers in Kerala to use Linux desktop software under a "Train-the-Trainer" program. The Kerala government believes that free and open-source software is an essential component in its drive to democratize information technology and bring its benefits to all sections of society, Kerala's chief minister, V.S. Achutanandan, said Tuesday. The Indian federal government, in contrast, hasÂ refrained from taking sidesÂ in favor of either open-source or proprietary software. Microsoft, for example, is running a program in the country, called Project Shiksha, to train teachers and students in government-run schools in the use of information technology. But some research labs run by the government work on open source projects. Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software FoundationÂ (FSF) in Boston, was able to gather support from politicians in Kerala and West Bengal, another communist run state, during his visit there last year.
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UK government departments moved a step closer to using open-source operating systems such as Linux after a study found that they are "viable" products.
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Open-source OS offers several advantages, phone maker says.
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Open-source collaboration software vendor depends on its partners to compete.
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InfoWorld - A recent federal court ruling pertaining to open-source software in model railroads could derail enforcement of open-source licenses altogether, according to Mark Radcliffe, general counsel for the Open Source Initiative.