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Microsoft Against Open Source We plan to collect here information on methods used by Microsoft to stop the spread of open source and free software. Lower pricing ...

Open Source Venezuela Venezuela’s Public Administration to Use Open Source Software By Gregory Wilpert Venezuelanalysis.com, Thursday, December 30, 2004 "President ...

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The State of Open Source (SOS) Our goal is to make a knowledge base for open source and free software issues so activists can learn and leverage experience around ...

Programmers Without Frontiers (PWF) This was a United Nations proposal during the Summer 2003 preparatory meetings for the World Summit on the Information Society ...

WIPO Meeting Affair On July 7, 2003 a group of well known scientists and technologists organized by James Love of the Consumer Project on Technology sent a letter ...

Open Source United Nations GNU/Development, International Organizations Take a Close Look at Linux By Fred Noronha, October 25, 2002. Interesting review on efforts ...

Poland Open Source Free software taxation In November of 2000 we found through a post on the Debian list about the attempt to tax free software in Poland. We tried ...

Open Source Vietnam Vietnam embracing open source products by Ben Stocking, October 30, 2003, Mercury News. Presentation of Jordi Carrasco Muñoz The text presents ...

SCO Against Linux SCO: Without Fear and Without Research By Eben Moglen, Monday 24 November 2003. Also FSF's Position regarding SCO's attacks on Free Software. Analysis ...

Web Site Suggestions In September 2003 there was discussion on the Public Software Mailing List (PubSoft) on free and open source software for the management of large ...

Public Software Mailing List (PubSoft) Discussions on software as a public good. Free software and open source software applications on third world development and ...

Linux Clause Thanks to Norbert Klein for providing the following information: "Very often startup musicians could get their music/songs only onto CDs of established ...

Open Source Pakistan Support for Linux by the Government of Pakistan Daily Times, June 9, 2003. Short account of new budget including allocation of Rs 150 million ...

Munich City Contract On 28 May 2003, the city of Munich, Germany, voted 50 to 30 to migrate its Windows desktops to Linux. According to a report conservative Christian ...

Venkatesh (Venky) Hariharan Activist, writer, software developer. India Turns to Community Computing Technology Review, August 13, 2003. Venkatesh Hariharan interviews ...

Open Source Tanzania Tanzania E secretariat "We are a group of Tanzanians from various walks of life who have been concerned for some time at the lack of coordination ...

Open Source South Africa South African Govt Advisory Punts Open Source Software By Alastair Otter, Feb. 4, 2002, ITWeb. Reports on a recent position paper in support ...

Open Source Third World Development United Nations University / International Institute for Software Technology (UNU/IIST) "UNU/IIST's mission is to help developing ...

Microsoft In India Shiksha Microsoft e learning inititive "In order to accelerate computer literacy at the school level, Microsoft would initiate project Shiksha ...

Open Source Middle East The Penguin catches on in the Middle East: Factors that favor Linux The Star (Jordan), July 18 24, 2002. Short article on localization efforts ...

Open Source Science Tree of Life Web Project "A collaborative Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity. The Tree of Life is a collaborative ...

Software Localization Arabeyes Project "Arabeyes is a Meta project that is aimed at fully supporting the Arabic language in the Unix/Linux environment. It is designed ...

Open Source Radio "Welcome to PUBLICVOICE.fm, a self operated streaming network running only free software that lets you start your own radio in a few steps, using ...

Open Source Taiwan Taiwan opens arms to open source By Tiffany Kary, CNET news.com, June 4, 2002. Short report on a recent initiative by the Taiwanese government ...

Open Source Korea HANCOM and Korean government stepped into Linux desktop mainstream Press release by HancomLinux, a Korea based Linux company, on January 9, 2002 ...

Ken Young Australian community activist and networker with extensive involvement in various social issues. Alive and well and kicking those distros down under ... ...

Public Goods Public Goods is a very important economic concept. We are very pleased to have here a contribution written by Raul Zambrano, UNDP, in early 2001 on what ...

Open Source Peru We have a separate page on the Peruvian Bill Number 1609 by Congressman Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Núñez. LACFREE 2003 Latin American and the Caribbean ...

Why Public Software? Quite often we are asked why we use the term "Public Software", since most people use "Free Software" and/or "Open Source" why introducing yet ...

Open Source Non Profit Organizations openchallenge nonprofits program "Openchallenge is interested in channeling Open Source development potential in order to help ...

Open Source Telecommunications Freeside is an open source billing and account administration package for Internet Service Providers. "Bayonne, the telecommunications ...

Open Source United Kingdom Open Source Software use in UK government Official announcement of recent policy changes regarding open source by the UK Governemt Office ...

Kenya Open Source Need information for the following: Linux at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology labs Githogori wa Nyangara Murage ...

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Open Source USA Linux users march on city hall By Lisa M. Bowman, ZDNet News, August 15, 2002 "A small but enthusiastic crowd of Linux lovers hits the streets of ...

Security Enhanced Linux Linux makes a run for government By Robert Lemos, CNET News.com, August 16, 2002 Report on efforts by the Cyberspace Policy Institute at ...

Open Source Security We have a separate page for Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) Linux Security Modules "The Linux Security Modules (LSM) project provides a lightweight ...

Peruvian Bill Number 1609 Microsoft's Big Stick in Peru by Agustin d'Empaire, Wired News, July 27, 2002. Reports on efforts by the US Ambassador John Hamilton in ...

Open Source for Spanish Schools Linex. El Sistema Operativo Libre de Extremadura Official government site in Extremadura. Extremadura Measures: Linux By Julia Scheeres ...

Open Source Spain GNU España "Bienvenido al site web de GNU España, la filial oficial del Proyecto GNU en España." We have a separate page for: Open Source ...

Research on Open Source Open Source Software Research and Development This is apparently an informal team in the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie ...

Mexico Internet Access e Mexico This is a large public works program initiated by the Fox government to advance Internet connectivity in Mexico. The URL for the official ...

Open Source Mexico Miguel de Icaza Home Page Mexico Has Resources for High Tech Success: An open letter to Mexican President elect Vicente Fox By Gary Chapman ...

Activism hacktivismo.com: social justice/technology/cDc "Hacktivismo is an international group of hackers, human rights workers, lawyers and artists that evolved ...

Open Source Military Software Open Source Fight Flares At Pentagon: Microsoft Lobbies Hard Against Free Software By Jonathan Krim, Washington Post, May 23, 2002. Reviews ...

Open Source Video Games #ButterflyNet Butterfly.net Commercial grid network for online distributed video games. It uses "rack mounted Linux based IBM eServer xSeries ...