Member of Parliament Patrick Harvie Talks to KDE
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| In answering a question about how we can use the political process more he
| describes how Microsoft had a government conference in the Scottish
| Parliament on the day of Windows Vista's launch. There Bill Gates could tell
| governments that Windows is the norm. He tried to organise a counter
| conference on the same day but there was no room. However such an event could
| be organised in parliament and he says MSPs and civil servants would turn up.
|
| Asked about use in education he said it was utterly wrong to teach children
| there is only one product in the market. However schools are very reluctant
| to even give use of a different browser. In education he thinks school
| children should have at least one experience of collaborating on free
| software.
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http://dot.kde.org/1184072113/
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Vista gets slated - by the Greens
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| The Green Party has slammed Microsoft and it's forthcoming operating
| system, Windows Vista, in a withering attack on the company's "monopoly".
|
| Microsoft not only takes criticism for allegedly environmentally
| unfriendly policies, but for attacking civil liberties.
|
| The party claims that "Vista gives Microsoft the ability to lock
| you out of your computer," and that "Microsoft are determined not
| to play fair" in the video content market.
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http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/news.php?id=107813
Green Party slams Microsoft OLPC involvement
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| "Microsoft wants to restrict the greatest profits in the knowledge economy
| to already established software corporations like itself.
|
| "By installing its programs on these laptops Microsoft hopes to create
| market domination and vendor lock in. That is unacceptable bribery.
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http://www.infomaticsonline.co.uk/vnunet/news/2170267/update-green-party-labels
Tories want open source Whitehall:
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| The government could save more than £600 million a year if
| it used more open source software, the shadow chancellor has
| estimated.
|
| George Osborne said the savings would cut 5% off Whitehall's
| annual IT bill.
|
| He called for a more "level playing field" for all software
| companies, and urged "cultural change" in government.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6430069.stm
The [UK] politics of open source
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| There's been a suggestion of a shift towards open source in the
| houses of government in the UK recently, with the Conservative
| Party promising to promote open source if elected and the incumbent
| Labour Party releasing the code behind its new carbon footprint
| calculator under the General Public License.
|
| [...]
|
| PlaidCymru.org
| Apache on Linux (moved from Windows today)
|
| [...]
|
| SDLP.ie
| Apache on FreeBSD (moved from Windows today)
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/07/the_politics_of.html
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