OPEN STANDARDS, OPEN FORMAT - Key to the Future
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| Gandhi's philosophy is still relevant, in all walks of life. In the context
| of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT), the end is -
| dissemination and communication of information: the means are - how to
| achieve it; how to implement it; what kinds standards to employ; what kinds
| of formats to adopt; what kind of software to use?
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http://kvtrust.blogspot.com/2007/11/open-standards-format-key-to-future.html
Pentagon: Our new robot army will be controlled by malware
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| A US defence department advisory board has warned of the danger that American
| war robots scheduled for delivery within a decade might be riddled with
| malicious code. The kill machines will use software largely written overseas,
| and it is feared that sinister forces might meddle with it in production,
| thus gaining control of the future mechanoid military.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/06/open_source_malware_future_combat_systems_robot_hack_war/
http://tinyurl.com/yp5nmt
Why not open source then?
Related:
Vista a 'threat' to the national security of India
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| As Mr Bombay Watcher says on his blog, Microsoft has a cosy partnership
| with the CIA, so perhaps the world should take care and caution when it
| comes time to upgrade. We're pretty certain Windows 3.1 would be a safe
| bet. He seems particularly worried about the national security of India,
| as it does, of course, have some conflicting interests with the US
| of A.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34979
Defense procurement ill-suited for open source
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| In order to fully take advantage of open-source software, Defense Department
| agencies may need to rethink how they do procurement, said Fritz Schulz, who
| works in the chief technology office of the Defense Information Systems
| Agency.
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http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/45376-1.html
Open-source evolves from 'nerdy' to notable
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| Last January, Host Europe, a company that runs the Web sites for 120,000
| businesses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, secured an unlikely supplier
| for the open-source software it uses to run almost all of its computer
| servers.
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| "I think that the adoption of open source has been much greater in some
| of the Continental markets and in the United States," said Mark Brier,
| an open-source technician at the National Computing Center in
| Manchester, England, a nonprofit group that advises government
| on computer purchases. "Here there is no large-scale adoption."
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| Scott Thompson, the executive director of OpenAdvantage, a
| nonprofit group in Birmingham, England, that promotes open-source
| software among businesses in the West Midlands region, said the
| spread has been limited by outmoded government procurement rules
| that favor larger, established proprietary vendors, government
| outsourcing of technology operations to companies with relationships
| to proprietary vendors, and the well-funded defense of proprietary
| software makers.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/03/technology/source02.php
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.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/07/the_politics_of.html
Governments slammed for anti-competitive software tendering practices
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| A leading Australian open source advocate has called for an end for to
| tender lock-outs of competitors to Microsoft, claiming the practice
| is costing Australian taxpayers tens of millions of dollars each
| year.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/11496/53/
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