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EU: SUN and Novell to governments: there is plenty of Open Source support
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| Sun Microsystems and Novell, two IT services firms promoting Open Source, are
| telling government CIOs there is plenty of support for this kind of software,
| the IT news site Zdnet reports.
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| [...]
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| Support for the Open Source operating system GNU/Linux rivals that of
| proprietary systems, Zdnet last April quoted Paul Kangro, applied technology
| strategist for Novell. He suggests fears over support are spread by companies
| that feel threatened by this kind of software.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7694/469
Leaked World Bank report: Biofuels the problem.
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| There is speculation that the report, completed in April, was left
| unpublished for political reasons; specifically, concern about contradicting
| the U.S. government's official report, which concluded that U.S. and British
| biofuel mandates had virtually no impact on food prices.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/7/4/45106
Last week:
Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near
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| My presentation today is exactly 20 years after my June 23, 1988, testimony
| to Congress, which alerted the public that global warming was underway. There
| are striking similarities between then and now, but one big difference.
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008149.html
Lessig: Don't fall into the four-year trap
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| On a massive display screen, he loaded up a portrait of legendary New England
| statesman and eventual Secretary of State Daniel Webster, whose professional
| conflicts of interest would have been enough to make even the most lukewarm
| of political bloggers cringe.
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| "Bribery wasn't even a crime in our Congress until 1853. The 19th century was
| a cesspool of this kind of corruption," Lessig explained. "Up to 25 percent
| of the voters literally sold their votes. I'm not talking about a golden
| past."
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| [...]
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| And then there's the big one: global warming, and the "junk science" research
| put forth at the behest of the oil industry.
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| "Just putting money on the table removes the conditions of trust," Lessig
| said. "Money destroys the opportunity for trust. Eighty-eight percent of the
| people in my district believe they have their votes bought."
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| He left his role as founder and CEO of copyright reform advocacy group
| Creative Commons in April to focus on Change Congress.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9975958-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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