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Get online, Philippines!
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| Earlier that day, during the Usaping Balita
| Media Forum at Serye Restaurant and Cafe with
| Ms. Toni Torres in the panel, Bayan Muna
| Partylist Rep.Teodoro CasiÃo, reiterated that
| there is a need for a law directing ICT. It
| should remembered that, as early as 2006, the
| said author of Free and Open Source Software
| Act, had been seeking the creation of an
| attached agency under the CICT to oversee the
| agenciesâ migration to open source,
| especially in government and education. But
| the billâs biggest hurdle is the lack of
| awareness on open source, aside from
| Microsoftâs opposition. On the other hand,
| National Solid Waste Management executive
| director Emelita Aguinaldo echoed what she
| presented during the Asian Development Bank
| Urban Day 2008: âThe truth is that we lack
| proper segregation of recyclable/recoverable
| waste material at source resulting to low
| recycling ratio and low quality of recyclable
| materials. Technological and financial
| capacity of the domestic recycling industry
| is limited. No outflow of recyclables to
| international big market such as China. We
| are dependent on the collecting and trading
| of recyclable/recoverable materials upon
| price fluctuation based on market mechanism
| and unstable domestic supply of recyclables.
| There is fragmented information and network
| for optimizing the flow of
| recyclable/recoverable materials from
| generators to the final users.â
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http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/265113/get-online-philippines
"But why the obsession with Microsoft???"
Maybe it's because Microsoft is obsessed with attacking software freedom.
Recent:
Red Hat Sues Switzerland Over Microsoft Monopoly
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| Â8 million a year to Microsoft, with no public bidding. And that's just the
| tip of the iceberg, say open source activists
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| Linux vendor Red Hat, and 17 other vendors, have protested a Swiss government
| contract given to Microsoft without any public bidding. The move exposes a
| wider Microsoft monopoly that European governments accept, despite their lip
| service for open source, according to commentators.
|
| The Red Hat group has asked a Swiss federal court to overturn a three-year
| contract issued to Microsoft by the Swiss Federal Bureau for Building and
| Logistics, to provide Windows desktops and applications, with support and
| maintenance, for 14 million Swiss Franc (Â8 million) each year. The contract,
| for "standardised workstations", was issued with no public bidding process,
| Red Hat's legal team reports in a blog - because the Swiss agency asserted
| there was no sufficient alternative to Microsoft products.
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http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/red-hat-sues-switzerland-over-microsoft-monopoly-965
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