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Open Data and Social Media Government
Andrea DiMaio writes — Why Do Governments Separate Open Data and Social Media Strategies? — about the need to merge open data strategies and social media ...
IT: Constitutional court says administrations can favour open source
Public administrations in Italy may make laws that favour their use of free and open source over proprietary alternatives, according to Italy's Constitutional ...
BE: Minister: "Open source prevents monopolies, increases innovation"
"Open source prevents monopolies, helps to share knowledge and increases social innovation", says Vincent Van Quickenborne, Belgium's minister for the ...
Ubuntu releases second alpha of Karmic Koala
The Ubuntu team this morning released a second alpha of the upcoming Karmic Koala operating system, also known as Ubuntu 9.10. While it is still early days for ...
CZ: Ministry funds open source document management system
The Czech Interior ministry has funded the development of an open source document management system (DMS) meant especially for public administrations. The ...
EU software liability law could divide open source
The world of open-source development could be divided, if the European Commission succeeds in passing a law extending consumer protection rules to software, ...
Africa's Premier FOSS Institution links up with Europe's FOSS hub.
The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA), is set to embark on its longest out-of-the continent working trip to Berlin, Europe's Open ...
OpenSource World Offering Free Admission
Organizers of the upcoming OpenSource World conference broadened the event program and are offering free admission, hoping to attract more attendees in a time ...
How Open Source Can Beat the Status Quo
One of the biggest problems with open source is understanding what it means out in the real world. I'm not talking about understanding the actual technology. ...
German government wants open standards and open source
The newly elected German government plans to support open standards and open source software. In its four-year coalition contract, the government led by ...
South Africa: Shuttleworth Sticks With His Free Ubuntu Software
SOUTH African internet billionaire Mark Shuttleworth has enough cash to pump into his software company, Canonical, saying he is being careful with his pennies ...
Open Source Business Benefits 'Outweigh' Potential Problems
Lack of open source skills is still hindering adoption, says survey.
SE: Disease research centre: 'Open Source statistics can increase number of users'
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) based in the city of Stockholm, Sweden, says Open Source statistical models will help to increase ...
DE: Foreign ministry: 'Cost of Open Source desktop maintenance is by far the lowest'
Open Source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and ...
EU: Updated guide on Open Source for SMEs
The third edition of a guide to help small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt Open Source software was published by the Italian Open Source ...
FI: City of Oulu: "Open Source offers very competitive alternative"
Open Source delivers a very competitive alternative to proprietary solutions, says Jaakko Järvenpää, one of the IT administrators of the City of Oulu in ...
OpenOffice.Org 3 Downloads: Windows Way In The Lead
InformationWeek October 31, 2008 In what probably comes as a surprise only to people who haven't been following trends in open source recently, the vast ...
Firefox turns 4
Four years ago yesterday, Mozilla announced the release of Firefox 1.0. Four years on and Firefox has grown to a point where it now commands 20 percent ...
Open Xchange lands $9 million funding round
Open-Xchange announced Monday it landed a $9 million second round of funding, with the proceeds earmarked for furthering its software development and expansion ...
Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex raises the bar
Each new Ubuntu release has raised the standard by which other Linux distros are judged. With the new Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, the focus is on mobility and ...
OpenSolaris 2008.11 – Year of the Laptop?
"Is Linux getting too old for you? Are you interested to see what other systems such as OpenSolaris have to offer? OpenSolaris has some great features, such as ...
FI: 'Increase of open source by companies spurs public administrations'
An annual survey on the use of software by Finnish companies shows that now 75 percent of Finish companies are using open source, up from 13 percent in 2000. ...
Linux growth: The Asus connection
Asustek is not a name most people know. The Taiwan-based hardware maker traditionally operates in the PC-board sector. But a few years ago the company began to ...
What Outsourcers Can Learn from Open-Source Communities
Out-sourcing development and open-source development may at first appear to be about as far apart as baseball and football. Both use a ball in a game, but ...
Guidelines on software tenders 'useful'
Government representatives and organisations involved in software tenders in Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands say last month's IDABC report 'Guidelines on ...
Governments get OSS resource centre
University of the Western Cape (UWC) PHD student, Nico Elema, is the driving force behind a project to provide governments with up-to-date open source software ...
OpenOffice.org Achieves Ten Million Downloads at the End of its Beijing Conference
Early on Sunday 9th, the OpenOffice.org Community achieved an historic milestone, when the ten millionth person clicked on the "Download OpenOffice.org" button ...
Sun unveils open-source storage line
Sun Microsystems unveiled Monday its Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems line, as it seeks to turn around its ailing business by once again turning to ...
FOSSFA and COMESA parley on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) implementation in 19 African Countries
The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) has engaged on a strategic framework for the implementation of of Free and Open Source ...
Mozilla is localized in Luganda language
On the 7th and 8th of August a group of 300 makerere students in collaboration with Rhodes University in South Africa and a company called ...
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