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Agreement between Microsoft and the Greek government
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| On 1 February 2006, the Greek government and Microsoft announced a strategic
| partnership agreement (the "Agreement"). At least 6 questions by the
| parliament remained unanswered by the government. On 10 January 2008, the
| government created a law proposal that would make the Agreement have the
| power of law. The law was approved by the Parliament on 29 January 2008. The
| FFII and the Hellenic Linux Users Group filed a complaint to the European
| Commission, which is still (as of 28 December 2008) under investigation.
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http://www.ffii.gr/ms-gov-agreement-en
Recent:
GR: Municipalities to get open source platform for electronic services
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| Greek municipalities are building an open source platform to offer citizens
| and small and medium sized business access to their services. This Local
| Government Application Framework (LGAF) will be developed by the Central
| Union of Municipalities of Greece (Kedke).
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| Sixteen cities and municipalites will begin the development project,
| including Imathia, Ithaca, Konitsa and Chios.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/gr-municipalities-to-get-open-source-platform-for-electronic-services
Related:
Athens schools promote 'open source' computing
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| Athens was invited because it is one of few districts in Michigan teaching on
| Linux operating systems. Linux is a cost-free alternative to proprietary
| systems, such as Microsoft Windows or Apple's Mac O.S. While some open source
| software applications, such as e-mail programs, come at a cost, Linux is
| almost entirely free. Windows or Mac systems can cost up to $400 per machine.
|
| Open source means the source code for an operating system cannot be owned and
| is available for free.
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http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080305/NEWS01/803050312/1002/NEWS01
Let’s set the ERT audiovisual archive free (manifesto - draft)
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| Greek citizens, but also citizens of other countries, we jointly sign this
| text on the occasion of ERT’s choice to distribute its audiovisual archive
| non-freely to the public. Our aim and ambition is to publicize our
| propositions so that they become the starting point of an open dialog among
| the Greek society, the European and global public audience and to signal the
| revision of backward policies and the creation of common political wealth.
|
| Few days ago, the ERT administration presented the beginning of the
| availability, only via Internet streaming, of a part of its audiovisual
| archive. This move constitutes an important first step, which, however, in
| our opinion, is tarnished by the fact that the public availability of the
| archive is not made free, although the Greek and European citizens have paid
| their money to make the production and digitization of the archive feasible.
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http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/lets-set-the-ert-audiovisual-archive-free-manifesto-draft/2008/01/06
Open source tour of Europe: Greece
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| There are isolated examples of public open source adoption projects, such as
| Heraklion on the island of Crete expressing a preference for open source
| software for its e-Government portal, Athens using Linux, Apache and PHP, and
| Toperos Xanthis using Linux and Joomla.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/06/16/open-source-tour-of-europe-greece/
Hot stuffin' in Greece?
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| After the voting of the Greek HoD you may ask why the votes were 14 in total,
| when the organisations appointed to the committee are just 12. That's only
| the latest of the magical wonders around OpenXML.
|
| [...]
|
| New voting members are joining the committee at the last minute:
|
| However, during the discussion, the representative of the Information
| Society showed the fax he had received, to which was attached the
| decision 19103/08 of the ELOT administration, dated 1 February 2008,
| which modifies the composition of the Committee by adding four new
| organisations: the Ministry of Education, two departments of the Ministry
| of Economics, and Information Society S.A. The representatives of NTUA
| had not been informed of this decision.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-42845/hot-stuffin-in-greece
Greece sell-out Proposal
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| Microsoft Hellas proposes a contract that will take over control of the
| sovereign European state. Greece would lose the right to speak about other
| products its government uses and gain the right to support the business
| interests of the vendor and its policy goals.
|
| [...]
|
| Nice proposal, Microsoft will help Greece to spy on its ICT infrastructure in
| order to weaken the procurement power of Greece for the benefit of the
| supplier. Win-Win, right?
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-35281/greece-sell-out-proposal
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