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| Quick translation of the text from “The Finnish News Agency” aka STT going
| rounds in web already and being published in all of the major and also most
| of the minor newspapers tomorrow. (Friday)
|
| In the meeting between prime minister of Finland Matti Vanhanen and Bill
| Gates, the software giant Microsoft promised to donate tailored tools for
| finnish schools.
| Microsoft will offer finnish basic education and general upper secondary
| schools and their students free Windows live services selection.
| It includes f.ex Hotmail, electronic timetable, discussion forum and a
| bulletin board.
| Microsoft told about the new collaboration on Thursday in Seattle.
| It is the first project for both basic- and secondary schools. It can also be
| used in finnish vocational, polytechnic and university schools.
| “This project supports very well the development of finnish information
| society also in educational system and corresponds well with our aims in
| information society”, Vanhanen praised Microsoft.
|
| http://yle.fi/news/id79777.html has some background about his visit to the
| US.
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Why donate? Is Microsoft dumping again?
Related:
European spend on open source software hits 22bn Euros
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| Rishab Ghosh, a senior researcher at the UN University in Maastricht,
| will tell the Open Ireland conference in Dublin that the spend in the
| US on free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) stands at 36bn
| Euros and accounts for 20pc of software spend in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7850
Source of the revolution
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| According to Ghosh, the notional value of Europe's investment in
| free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) today is e22bn,
| representing 20.5pc of the region's total software investment.
| Spending on OSS stands at e36bn and accounts for 20pc of software
| expenditure in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8105
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