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Every child in Portugal and Venezuela will have open source
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| The Magelhaes (Magellan) initiative of the Portuguese government is giving
| every child in the country an Intel Classmate PC for 50 euros - and they are
| dual-boot machines running XP and a local Linux called Caixa Magica.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10011898o-2000469549b,00.htm
Related:
Steve Ballmer Gets the Egg-Treatment in Budapest
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mtBQ4UCXQeo
Pity the Poor Classmate PC'd Children of Portugal
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| Combine that complete outsourcing of computer systems evaluation with silence
| on the financial terms of the deal and I'm thinking there is a deal in the
| works - cheap Classmates now for lucrative future government orders.
|
| Shady deals being a hallmark of Classmate sales to date.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/intel/classmate_pc_children_portugal.html
Open source tour of Europe: Portugal
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| Many of the country’s open source projects to date are in the education
| sector, triggered by the government’s five-year agreement with Sun, signed in
| 2004, to provide open source technologies – including Linux and
| OpenOffice.org/StarOffice – to Portuguese secondary schools.
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| More recently the Associação Ensino Livre (Association for Free Education)
| was founded to increase the use of open source software in education, while
| the Education Ministry launched a new website designed to promote open source
| usage.
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| Outside the education sector, the Institute of Technology is migrating to
| OpenOffice, the Ministry of Justice has used an open source system based on
| JBoss, PostgreSQL and Linux for the dissemination of information on
| referendum results and the Ministry of Internal Affairs used JBoss to create
| a new traffic fines management system.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/06/20/open-source-tour-of-europe-portugal/
OpenOffice.org being distributed to Portuguese schools
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| I was just made aware of this Portuguese blog entry. CDs including
| OpenOffice.org will be distributed to Portuguese schools again. Great news!
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/openoffice_org_being_distributed_to
Portuguese Schools Learn About Open Source
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| As Microsoft understands - and as Apple first learned - if you get them
| young, you've pretty much got them forever. So it's good to see efforts being
| made to spread the open source word in the educational world, like this new
| effort by the Portuguese Ministry of Eduction...
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/04/portuguese-schools-learn-about-open.html
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| In my country (Portugal) we have a very similar deal, available to all
| students and teachers in high school, which is subsidized by the
| cellphone/mobile ISP companies, the government and probably Microsoft, where
| you can get a laptop for 150 euros with a contract for 2 years for the mobile
| internet access with a nice discount from the usual monthly fees, from
| several well known laptop manufacturers (HP, Toshiba), and pretty decent
| machines also (Core Duo, 1 Gb RAM, the only downside is they all have
| integrated graphics cards), of course they all come with Windows Vista Home
| Premium as well.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/2/16/36312
IBM is still locked out of the Portuguese OOXML meeting
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| In spite of various communications, we [IBM] are still locked out and will
| not be allowed to participate. Microsoft will be there, as well as a special
| Microsoft guest, as will various Microsoft business partners, and others.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1755
Portugal: Votes Yes with Comments on OOXML
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| Commitee presided over by Microsoft decides in it's favor 13-7:
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| It's with much disgust that I see that after an initial membership controlled
| by Microsoft of 7 to 1, it was only possible to add the participation of 12
| more entities, 6 in favor of open standards, and 6 in favor of Microsoft.
|
| If from the the first meeting it was clear that there was a favorable support
| for Microsoft of 7 to 1, the voting just an hour ago of YES WITH COMMENTS is
| sadly revealing.
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http://www.groklaw.net/newsitems.php
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