Govt agencies view open source as positive: survey
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| The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has released
| a summary of the findings of its investigations into the use of free and open
| source software (FOSS) within federal government agencies indicating most
| expect to increase its use over the next five years.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=812804456&rid=-219
Sangoma Announces First Distribution Partner in India
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| Sangoma’s PC-based products empower the deployment of IP telephony, helping
| PeopleTech make the implementation and deployment of open source solutions a
| smooth and successful process for businesses.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080120005033&newsLang=en
http://tinyurl.com/33gbnr
Quote for the day:
"I thanked [Compaq's John] Rose for all of his trips to Seattle and his
willingness to distract a lot of time for the lawsuit."
--Bill Gates, oil tycoon
Related:
Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policy
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| "A member of Parliament of the United Kingdom has launched a stinging
| attack on the U.K. government's IT strategy, saying that it has given
| Microsoft too much control.
|
| John Pugh, who is a member of Parliament, or MP, for Southport and a
| member of the Public Accounts Committee, was speaking in an
| adjournment debate on Tuesday that he had called. The aim of the
| debate, he said, was to explore the alternatives to using Microsoft
| software, including open source."
|
| [...]
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http://www.news.com/Lawmaker-blasts-U.K.-government-on-Microsoft-policy/2100-1012_3-6212721.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ashm2
Interview with Richard M. Stallman
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| It is important to know this because we will always face pressure, from those
| who are powerful and would like to take away our freedom, to surrender our
| freedom—and they frequently offer us something attractive in exchange. For
| instance, B’liar wanted to abolish the Rights of Englishmen, and to serve his
| American master, Bush, faithfully; so he offered Britons “protection” from
| this or that, plus the imagined idea that he influences his master on their
| behalf through the “special relationship”.
|
| The same thing happens in our field, too. Companies making consumer
| electronics products want to impose DRM on us; they want to do this in
| programs that they receive as free software, then pass them on to us in such
| a way that we do not have the freedom to change them. So they invite us to
| allow our software to be tivoized, and offer us, as an inducement, that our
| software will be “more popular” if we cave in.
|
| The only way to keep our freedom is to have the steadfastness to reject those
| tempting offers. We have to move to a license like GPL version 3 that will
| stop these tempters in their tracks.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/interview_with_richard_stallman
Fighting for Open Access in Russia
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| The UK is apparently not the only country where there is a fight going on for
| open access to government information:
|
| The Institute for Information Freedom Development (IIFD) fighting for the
| state standards to be available in the internet has managed to persuade
| the Russian government in its rightness. On the eve of the New Year’s
| holidays the decree of the RF cabinet of ministers setting the procedure
| to publish the national standards on the site of the Federal Agency for
| Metrology and Technical Regulation (Rostehregulirovanie) has been
| enforced. The document foresees the standards to be open and available
| free of charge. However, the officials do not intend to give up.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/01/fighting-for-open-access-in-russia.html
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