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Open Source and The Geographic Divide â Europe and North America
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| Free vs. open source, the debate is alive and
| well, although certainly of a different
| character, and more subtle than the in the
| past. During the event, and the five days I
| spent in Paris, I had numerous opportunities
| to engage in group and individual
| conversations, mostly centered on the
| commercial aspects of free and/or open source
| software. Iâll use the term FOSS to cover both
| sets of terminology. My general observations
| on how the various geographies use the
| terminology consists of North Americans almost
| exclusively use the term âopen sourceâ which
| has more of a connotation of commercial
| software and Europeans mostly, but not
| entirely, use âfree softwareâ as their term of
| choice.
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http://blogs.olliancegroup.com/2009/10/16/open-source-and-the-geographic-divide-%E2%80%93-europe-and-north-america/
Recent:
German City MÃnster Launches Pilot Project For its Schools To Adopt Open Source Software
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| At the moment, teachers are trying out OpenOffice in
| two schools. The suite will be made available to all
| schools in November 2009. "We plan to make OpenOffice
| the default office application for schools", said
| Citeq's spokesperson Stefan Schoenfelder.
|
| During September 2009, the city reported that 140 of
| its 360 servers are running GNU/Linux. In a press
| statement published on 23 September 2009, Citeq
| stated that using open source is making it easier for
| the departments to share information.
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http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/29337
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