UK launches group to promote open-source use
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The goal is to convince more government agencies and private companies to use more open-source software.
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The Free Standards Group and the Open Source Development Labs(OSDL) hope that improved standards for Linux will help accelerate its adoption by enterprise and large business customers.
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Blog: Canonical Chief Executive Mark Shuttleworth invited programmers this week to help weed out proprietary software from the new Gobuntu version.
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PARIS - A group of European research institutions and open-source software companies has launched an effort to build new tools that will make it easier to do complex IT projects based on Linux and other open-source software, they said this week.
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The idea is to track all the relevant licenses used in any given open-source project or tool.
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A group of industry veterans are aiming to become the &quot;Dell of the software industry&quot; by creating a company dedicated to supporting Open Source software.
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The FOSSology Project monitors the use of free and open-source software within an enterprise.
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Company already uses others' open-source modules, but its own foundation follows suit in a bid to lure developers and customers.
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Industry group will offer a free program to help users find and eliminate illegal files.
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Hewlett-Packard has launched the FOSSology Project, a tool for tracking and monitoring the use of free and open-source software within an IT environment.
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The Office of Government Commerce (OGC), UK, has finally given the green signal persuading governments to consider the deployment of open source while implementing new systems.
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LONDON -- Open source software proponents received a potential boost from the U.K. government on Thursday with a release of a report citing the well-documented advantages on the server side, but also growing maturity on the desktop front.
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InfoWorld - A new U.K. think tank launched on Monday will analyze how open-source software can be used in government and the private sector.
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Open Solutions Alliance hopes to make open-source software programs work better together.
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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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LONDON -- In a deal that appears to buck the growing trend among governments to adopt open-source alternatives, the U.K.'s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) is negotiating a renewal of a three-year agreement with Microsoft Corp.
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Open source software proponents received a potential boost from the UK government Thursday with a release of a report citing the well-documented advantages on the server side, but also growing maturity on the desktop front.