- Alston opens agencies to Linux
News.com.au reports that the Australian Federal Government has given its blessing to Commonwealth departments and agencies to investigate and adopt open-source software. IT Minister Richard Alston said he was impressed with the cost savings open source had to offer.
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5421656%255E15319,00.html
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Review It - Defense Department OK's open-source software
The U.S. Department of Defense has issued a policy that officially authorizes the use of open-source software at the department, a move open-source pundits said opens the door to more government use of open-source software. Computerworld, June 6, 2003.
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/itgovernment/story/0,10801,81875,00.html?f=x605
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Review It - eEurope pegs future on Open Source
Open Magazine on the IDA report: "The European Commission plans to make the EU be nothing less than the most dynamic knowledge economy in the world."
http://www.open-mag.com/9753483279.htm
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Review It - Europe wants open sharing
KableNet.com on the IDA report: Member states of the European Union should share open source software to cut the cost of e-government, according to the European Commission.
http://www.kablenet.com/kd.nsf/Frontpage/7E702AC6BB7C85BA80256BF10059AF18?OpenDocument
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Review It - European Plan is Really Gated Source?
Tim O'Reilly: Good summary on Linux Weekly News of the European Commission recommendations regarding open source. And on FSB, Russ Nelson says it's really gated source.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1677
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Review It - Govt move on to let in Linux
The Economic Times: The government of India has started taking precise, wide-reaching steps to usher in a Linux wave in India.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/comp/articleshow?artid=32354337
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Review It - IBM signs Linux deal with Germany
BBC News 6/3/02: "The German Government backs the open source operating system, dealing a blow to Microsoft's Windows."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_2023000/2023127.stm
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Review It - Japan may drop Windows to boost security - paper
Forbes.com writes that Asahi Shimbun reported that the Japanese government will consider replacing Microsoft Windows, used in much of its computer networks, with another operating system to bolster security.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2002/11/15/rtr797045.html
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Review It - Linux contract treads on Microsoft turf
CNET.com 6/3/02: The German government has signed a deal with IBM and Linux company SuSE that makes it easier for government offices to use the open-source operating system, a move that addresses concerns about relying too heavily on Microsoft products."
http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-9992943-0.html?tag=ats
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Review It - Linux Lobby
Linux Lobby Engaged in the Political Process
http://linuxlobby.org/mt/
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Review It - Linux on government servers
A ZDNet Tech Update from META Group about open source initiatives in government.
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2908199,00.html
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Review It - Microsoft Opens Guarded Source Code to Governments
Reuters: "In an unprecedented move, Microsoft [announced] that it would open its source code -- the software giant's closely guarded blueprints for programs -- to governments and international organizations worldwide." The initiative is called the Government Security Program.
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=2045732
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Review It - Microsoft to Give Govt. Access to Code
(AP)--The source code Microsoft Corp. has long guarded as secret intellectual property is now becoming the carrot dangled before governments to keep them from defecting to competitors' software.
http://www.austin360.com/shared/news/technology/ap_story.html/Technology/AP.V4658.AP-Microsoft-Windo.html
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Review It - MP opens windows to Linux - The Economic Times
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh has shut the door on Bill Gates. The state government schemes will use Linux software. Chief minister Digvijay Singh personally conveyed this to Microsoft boss Bill Gates during an interaction last week in New Delhi.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?artid=28707422
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Review It - New Zealand News: Govt gives free software a run
The e-government unit of the State Services Commission has surprised the Open Source community by implementing Open Source directory software in one of its projects.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=2045914&thesection=technology&thesubsection=general
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Review It - Open Source is good for America - US military advised
The Register about the Mitre report: A report commissioned by the US military concludes that open source and free software should play a greater part in the infrastructure of the world's remaining superpower.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27822.html
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Review It - Open-Source Tug of War Heats Up
Wired: Legislation advocating government use of open-source software is un-American, anticompetitive, bad for business and hell on the economy and taxpayers, according to the Initiative for Software Choice.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55354,00.html
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Review It - Red Hat: Think Less Linux, More Architecture
Linux Today, Jan 23, 2003: "It's not about the component technology and not about the processor or the operating system. It's about the architecture that delivers the benefits and the technology that enables the architecture," Michael Tiemann, the CTO of Red Hat
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-022-26-NW-RH-DV
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Review It - Take on Gates, Kalam tells Indian techies
Indian President A P J Abdul Kalam urged Indian IT professionals to develop and specialise in open source code software rather than use proprietary solutions based on systems such as Microsoft Windows. (The Times of India)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=47799819
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Review It - Trade Group Bashes Government Open-Source Bias
The ISC noted that if there were a government policy requiring all software purchases to be licensed under the GPL, it would entail significant loss for commercial software developers.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20117.html#story-start
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Review It - Venezuela's Government Shifts to Open Source Software
Linux Today writes that according to government sources in Venezuela, the South American nation has announced an official policy that exclusively calls for the use of open source software in that government.
The announcement, made on Wednesday, stated that from now on, all software developed for the government must be licenced under the GPL. The entire policy was summed up in this statement by Dr. Felipe Pérez-Martí, Planning and Development Minister: "Open source whenever possible, propietary software only when necesary."
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-08-30-011-26-NW-LL-PB
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