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Government and Open Source Software
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| In order to understand the government's interest in open source software, one
| must understand the government acquisition process.
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http://virtualization.sys-con.com/node/969658/print
Blumenthal offers deadlines but puts off the hard decision
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| What all this should tell people in the health IT sector, whether proprietary
| or open source, is that the game is afoot, and that negotiations on how open
| source and proprietary programs will interact in a new health IT
| infrastructure are underway.
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| The lobbying has begun in earnest.
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http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=2309
Recent:
Trash Talk
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| Is there something about Estonia that makes them special? According to the
| Open Source Index, they have the highest Community Activity rank of all the
| countries measured. Now, the US is not far behind in that metric, but I think
| we should look a little deeper. Perhaps Estonia scored so high because they
| have an ethos of community activity that naturally carries over to software.
| And perhaps the US scored so high because within the open source community we
| get it. But we remain a small minority within an enormous landfill of
| proprietary software development. When enlightened, American software
| programmers can be as good as the Estonians at community activity. The
| trouble is, there just aren't enough of us. Yet.
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http://www.opensource.org/node/433
Where does Obama stand on open source?
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| Love him or hate him, Barack Obama will be President into 2013.
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| This is a key moment for open source. In some ways it is going from strength
| to strength. But it remains vulnerable to counter-attack from the copyright
| industries.
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| So far the President’s record on open source is mixed.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4214
Does experience at Microsoft make for a good politician?
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| State Rep. Ross Hunter, a former Microsoft general manager, announced today
| that he's running for King County Executive, competing against four other
| candidates for the position. He's one of many former Microsofties now in the
| political arena -- and he's pointing to his experience at the Redmond company
| as a major selling point
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http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Does_experience_at_Microsoft_make_for_a_good_politician_44020027.html
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