Norway opens Free Software Center
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| Norway opened a national center for competence in Free Software in Drammen,
| near Oslo, on Wednesday. Here's the center's web page in Norwegian.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/8/17/25148
Visit to Rome
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| So, about meeting the president of the chamber of deputies. He was very
| smart, and understood the threat of corporate totalitarianism. He was a good
| listener. Richard and I did not persuade him on the issue of software
| patenting - this time.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/8/17/25151
As you know, the Italian government is moving to Linux (also on the desktop).
Denmark:
Bruce Perens Live
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| Bruce Perens has launched into his talk at the Danish Unix User Group, and he
| immediately touches upon the issue for which he is best known: the definition
| of Open Source, and his role as a mediator between two of the other big men
| within the free software community, Richard Stallman and Eric Raymond whose
| eccentricities and disagreements have become the stuff of legend.
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http://eskar.dk/andreas/blog/?p=259
Related:
A Virtual Open Source Center to Nordic Countries
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| The initiative was confirmed during the Norwegian IT-minister Heidi
| Grande Roys' visit in Finland. The leader of COSS, Petri Rasanen,
| stated that the steady operation of COSS is a good base to build
| the international collaboration on, and for example the web site
| of the new center will be based on the COSS portal.
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http://www.swbusiness.fi/portal/news/news_from_software_business_cluster/other_news/?id=18528
Linux reaches the Italian Parliament
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| As reported by the Italian newspaper Repubblica on July 10th, 2007, a plan
| suggested by the left deputies Pietro Folena and Franco Grillini to migrate
| all the computers of the Parliament from Windows to Linux was approved by the
| Chamber.
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| The migration will affect about 3500 boxes of the Chamber, both desktops and
| servers, and each Deputy/Party may also ask to migrate his/its (private)
| computers to the Free System.
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http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/blog/linux-docs/italian-parliament-moves-to-linux/
The French Parliament switches to Ubuntu
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| The French Parliament looks to be the next big Ubuntu switcher according to
| reports. Recently the Parliament produced an official government report
| that recommended the use of free software over proprietary software. The
| switch to free software is expected to provide a substantial savings to the
| tax-payers according to the government study.
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http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/814
Itway Reinforced Parnership With US Company Red Hat
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| The Itway group specialising in the sector of information technology and
| quoted at the Milan stock exchange extended the agreement for the
| distribution in the whole south of Europe of the Red Hat solutions, one of
| the main distributors in the world of enterprise solutions. According to a
| statement, the value of the agreement has been estimated by the Itway
| management around the figure of 6 million euros on a yearly basis.
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http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200612181747-1198-RT1-CRO-0-NF30&page=0&id=agionline-eng.bnessitaly
Italy adopts OpenDocument as a National Standard
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| Italy has adopted The OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 23600) as a
| national standard. The decision was made by UNI, the Italian
| Organization for Standardization, which is responsible, under
| appointment from the Italian Government and the EU, to develop,
| approve and publish technical standards in all economic sectors
| (industry, trade and services) except for electric and
| electro-technical ones.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/1/29/13965
2006 Italian Linux Day: A nationwide success
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| The 2006 edition of Italian Linux Day on October 28 was the first
| in the six-year history of the event to be celebrated in more than
| 100 cities in every corner of the country.
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http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/01/2048226&from=rss
User-friendly Free Software for Senior Citizens
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| The project has deep roots in open source: it was developed in
| accordance with a set of rules and with the support of the open
| source community; Eldy was released freeware in order to
| guarantee the feasibility of the project, but it will have
| an open future and a self-installing Linux distribution.
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http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200612051807-1226-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia
http://tinyurl.com/yjrjvn
Historic victory of the "Associazione per il Software Libero"! [in Italy]
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| WE WON. Therefore 4.5 million Euros of public money will not be spent
| on proprietary software licenses, since the Ministry failed to
| consider free software options.
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http://www.softwarelibero.it/abbiamo_vinto_en
Web site attack hits Italy tourism sites
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| In an Internet attack dubbed "The Italian Job," several thousand
| Italian tourism Web sites have been infected by software that quietly
| gains control of computers visiting them and seeks out confidential
| financial data, a computer security firm said on Monday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070618/wr_nm/internet_security_italy_dc
Italian Company Debuts Petit ARM9 CPU With Linux
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| Elpa, based in Italy, has debuted the RD129, an ARM9-based module delivered
| with Linux kernel 2.6.21.5.
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http://www.arm.com/iqonline/news/marketnews/18065.html
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