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Government adoption of OSS is now extensive around the world. As proprietary and bespoke systems reach the ends of their useful lives, the opportunity now exists to replace them with OSS assemblies rather than launch new RFP processes for monolithic ..

Index of FOSS design tools and templates

So what happens when most of the residents of planet Earth carry a device that gives them instant access to pretty much all of the world's information? The implications-for politics, for education, for global economics-are dizzying. In theory, the mobile revolution could enable citizens to demand greater openness and accountability from their governments. The reverse might also be true: governments could more easily spy on citizens. "You also have the prospect of having 5 billion surveillance points," says Jonathan Zittrain, codirector of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Peter Hughes, head of procurement agreements at Becta, told the BBC that more would be done. BETT 2009 An estimated 30,000 people visited BETT this year "As an organisation, we have been criticised for not adequately covering open source solutions and our predominance of proprietary solutions, such as those by Microsoft. "We have therefore responded to this pressure and in our role of strategy and delivery of technology in education, we've made an effort to stay balanced and have focused on facilitating effective choice for schools," he said.

MCFARLAND (WKOW) -- Abbie Schubert paid more than $1,100 for a Dell laptop hoping to enroll in online classes at Madison Area Technical College, or MATC. But something stopped her: she bought an operating system for her computer she never heard of, Ubuntu. That's an operating system for your computer similar to Windows that contains Linux. It's highly regarded among some people and extremely popular with certain circles of computer users because it's free.

The FSF wasn't looking for money. The cost that comes with using free software code is that, if you sell or distribute programs or products that use the GPLed code, you have to share your modified code with its users. That's not much, but some companies, after adding their special sauce, don't want to share. That's a big, dumb mistake.

install a free alternative to Microsoft's Office suite, referred to in industry circles as OpenOffice, on 41,000 computers due to be distributed to schools across the state by the end of 2008.

Brian Fitzgerald, Head of the Law School at Queensland University of Technology, will discuss the success of open source in the information technology world, and the lessons for other fields of science. Transcript and Audio available at this link

Linux 101 what's all the fuss. A very good way to get IPP and year 10/11 IT students to get some understanding of what open source is and what some of the advantages of it are. Lots of other videos there as well - backing up, buying a digital camera, how

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Open Software CD for schools.

Google Open Source YouTube channel