Asian governments driving demand for open source
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| Asian governments are pivotal to Red Hat Inc.'s goal of earning 60 percent of
| its revenue from outside the US by the end of 2009, said Matthew Szulik, the
| company's chairman, chief executive officer, and president, in a conference
| call on Thursday.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/102507-asian-governments-driving-demand-for.html
Victorian Government Microsoft's $23 million Vista patsy: consultant
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| Zymaris has issued a call to the Victorian Government to open up its IT
| software purchases to a competitive tender process.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
| "This disregard for alternatives has gone on for long enough and has to be
| stopped," said Zymaris. "We call on the Department of Education to ensure
| that its tenders for computer platform, office productivity and related
| desktop software are truly open to the market, to give vendors besides
| Microsoft the opportunity to submit bids."
|
| According to Zymaris, Vista is a problematic platform that is being rejected
| by the rest of the world.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15037/53/
See below. Seems like a CIO left (got sacked?) there recently, based on
something I read yesterday. Microsoft playing a switcharoo again? Like in
Finland and Mass.?
Con also wrote in the past about a tender process involving decision-makers
paying big vendors or pals. It's a corrupt thing.
Recent:
SA eyes Apple, Red Hat to dodge vendor lock-in
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| The South Australian government is looking at a software overhaul that could
| see Apple or Red Hat taking over from Microsoft on the state's PCs. Analysts
| warn, however, skills costs could still lead to a software environment
| dominated by a single platform.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/SA-eyes-Apple-Red-Hat-to-dodge-vendor-lock-in/0,139023769,339283166,00.htm?feed=rss
LAMS rollout across entire NT school system
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| The Northern Territory Department of Employment, Education and
| Training (DEET) today began the rollout of Macquarie University's
| Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) software to all NT
| public schools.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=782325428&rid=-50
Related:
Copyright law reinforces monopoly, Open Source Society warns MPs
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| The New Zealand Open Source Society is opposing those parts of the
| Copyright Amendment Bill that would make it illegal to circumvent
| technological protection of copyright.
|
| The society argued, before a parliamentary committee, that such measures
| would reinforce Microsoft's market power.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/DFF5E36288E85D11CC2572DA00352758
Lessig: Required Reading: the next 10 years
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| Yet governments continue to push ahead with this idiot idea -- both Britain
| and Japan for example are considering extending existing terms. Why?
|
| The answer is a kind of corruption of the political process. Or better,
| a "corruption" of the political process. I don't mean corruption in the
| simple sense of bribery. I mean "corruption" in the sense that the
| system is so queered by the influence of money that it can't even get
| an issue as simple and clear as term extension right.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml#003800
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