From Groklaw:

Remember the New York State group that was told to investigate longterm storage needs in government and ODF/OOXML? The report is now published, "A Strategy for Openness: Enhancing E-Records Access in New York State". You can get it here in doc, PDF and odt formats.

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Head Start Students at the San Carlos Apache Reservation receive One Laptop Per Child XO Laptops from the Global Literacy Foundation. Read more at globalliteracy.org

Open source test successful

28 September 2007 - A test with open source software has been successful and there are no technical impediments to introducing such software in the entire municipal organisation, Amsterdam announced this week at a meeting organised by the Ministry of the Interior.

“The 10,000 departmental PCs can switch to open source software within five years”, spokesperson Stephan Wildeboer told Trouw. “Amsterdam’s city council will receive a proposal to that effect in December. The switch can be carried out at no additional costs. Some investments will have to be made, but these will be offset because we no longer will have to pay for licenses for Windows, Microsoft Office and for example Oracle programmes”.

No ISO standard for Microsoft OOXML on the fasttrack, despite their best efforts to subvert the process. more

Ruling finally comes... it's as we've always known. Linux code is unencumbered. more

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Microsoft has innovated some technically, but really pushes the envelope when it comes to legal matters. more

Sharing is good. Within one generation this speaker believes a truly amazing transformation will be completed. Much of the possibility's realization will be due to the GPL.v3. Enjoy! more

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