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Can open source make 311 relevant?
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| But rather than run for anything at a time
| when being in public service is assumed to
| disqualify you for it, he might be better
| served seizing the opportunities Open311
| affords. A foundation to run the .org, a
| company to run the .com, and the same
| charismatic gentleman on top of both.
| Governmentâs answer to Dries Buytaert, with
| better clothes.
|
| Sounds like a better political plan to me. He
| can gain standing without taking
| responsibility for running anything, since
| actual implementation remains in the hands of
| local governments. He can take credit for
| success without risking much blame for
| failure. And he can make money doing it.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5993
Recent:
German government IE warning leads to spike in Firefox downloads
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| Following a warning last Friday from the German
| Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt
| fÃr Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, BSI)
| concerning the security hole in Internet Explorer
| (IE), Mozilla has said that it has recorded a "huge
| increase" in the number of Firefox downloads in
| Germany. According to a post by Mozilla's Ken Kovash
| on the Mozilla Blog of Metrics, more than 300,000
| downloads of the open source browser took place during
| the recent Friday to Monday period. Similarly, Opera also
| reportedly saw downloads of its browser in Germany more than double.
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http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/German-government-IE-warning-leads-to-spike-in-Firefox-downloads-908864.html
MS to issue emergency patch for potent IE vuln
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| Microsoft will release an emergency upda
| te
| that patches the Internet Explorer
| vulnerability used to breach the security
| defenses of Google and other large companies.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/19/microsoft_emergency_patch/
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