Open source geeks asked to 'stand up and be counted'
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| It was Canberra-based coder Dr Andrew Tridgell, for example, that kicked off
| the Samba open source project which, for the better part of a decade, has
| allowed file and print interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and
| Windows clients and vice versa.
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| Some of the key contributors to the Linux Kernel, Waugh adds, such as Rusty
| Russell and Andrew Morton, are Australians, while Waugh himself is a
| contributor to the Gnome desktop project.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Open-source-geeks-asked-to-stand-up-and-be-counted-/0,130061733,339282435,00.htm
Related:
Government agencies embracing open source: Australian Government Information
Management Office [AGIMO]
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| Two in three (68 percent) of respondents to an AGIMO survey of
| federal government agencies said they are actively using FOSS.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Government-agencies-embracing-open-source-AGIMO/0,130061733,339279972,00.htm
Office 2007 may be Microsoft's Titanic: former Government IT boss
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| Bill Gates has been talking up Office 2007 ahead of its business launch
| on November 30. However, the recently departed deputy CIO of one of
| Australia's biggest government Microsoft sites believes introducing
| the new version of Microsoft Office may be the company's biggest
| ever disaster.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7234/53/
Feds assess open source
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| Federal government use of open-source software will be examined to assess
| how many agencies have adopted Linux and other systems.
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http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20553874%5E15441%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html
Talking Linux in Sydney
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| There are three major Linux conferences held annually, one each in the
| US, Canada and Australia.
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| That alone should provide an indication of the extent to which
| Australians have been, and are, involved in the free and open
| source software community.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8527/1090/
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