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Free Software in The British Government, GNU/Linux in the Indian Press

  • Subject: Free Software in The British Government, GNU/Linux in the Indian Press
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:54:24 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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UK shakes dust off open source policy

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| If it looked like UK open source policy, just recently exhumed, 
| had already been swept back under the same carpet it has been kept 
| under since it was first launched two and a half years ago, the announcement
| yesterday that Liam Maxwell had acquired responsibility for it with a Cabinet 
| Office portfolio did surprisingly little to improve its mien.
| 
| It is then just as well Cabinet Office is about to announce long-overdue progress
| in its cause of creating a level-playing field for open source software. Because 
| the new appointment will need all the help he can get.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2011/06/uk-shakes-dust-off-open-source.html

A window to open source OS 

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| Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning âhumanity to others,' 
| informs www.ubuntu.com. The word also means âI am what I am because
| of who we all are', adds the site.
| 
| âThe vision for Ubuntu is part social and part economic: free software,
| available free of charge to everybody on the same terms, and funded through
| a portfolio of services provided by Canonical.â
| 
| It was, therefore, a pleasant meeting that I recently had with Prakash Advani, 
| Regional Manager - Asia Pacific, Canonical, Mumbai (http://bit.ly/F4TAdvaniP). âI have been using 
| the latest Ubuntu 11.04 on a laptop that's almost three years now and I don't see any 
| degradation of performance,â says Prakash. âIt performs the same that it used to three 
| years back when I installed Ubuntu 9.10. After that we released three more versions and
| they have all worked beautifully on the same hardware.â Our conversation continues over email.
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http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/eworld/article2134736.ece
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