Norway encourages use of open source software

Norway pledged funds Monday to stimulate public sector use of the free open source software OpenOffice to reduce its dependency on Microsoft Corp. and other major software producers.

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Netherlands Adopts Open-Source Software

The Dutch government has set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software — freely distributed programs that anyone can modify — the Netherlands Economic Affairs Ministry said Thursday.

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Microsoft Details Patent Breaches

Microsoft Corp. cranked up the rhetoric against open-source software with new details about the ways it says free programs violate its patents.

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Sun Makes Java Tech. Open-Source Project

Computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. said Monday that it had begun to make its Java technology an open-source software project available for free on the Internet.

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Internet search giant Google has lifted the lid on its operating system, known as Chrome OS. The free and open source system is initially aimed at low-cost netbooks and does away with many of the features of a traditional program.

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After pulling the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from its servers over reports that it might violate the GNU General Public License (GPL), Microsoft has decided to go open source with the tool.

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The second poorest country of the Americas now has one of the best software solutions for displaying agricultural data in the western hemisphere.

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The GNOME desktop environment will get its first major version update since 2002 with the upcoming release of GNOME 3.0. Although the 3.0 release was previously planned for March, it has been pushed back to September 2010.

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Collecting money from customers should be the easy part of your business, but an billing system that underperforms can make life unnecessarily difficult for CIOs.

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At the US Department of Defense, open source and proprietary software are now on equal footing. According to Defense Department guidance issued yesterday (PDF), open-source software (OSS) should be treated just like any other software product.

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Just last week there were reports that Sequoia had accidentally revealed some of its source code -- but this week Sequoia has surprised a lot of people by announcing plans for a new e-voting system which will have open source e-voting software included.

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WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal.

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Mozilla Labs, Mozilla's innovation group, has developed a new open-source, experimental email and communication platform called Raindrop.

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If there's one thing geeks can't do it's user interfaces.

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The first is that they're allowing developers to fully distribute their apps via the web. What this means is that developers can simply submit their apps to Palm, and Palm will return to them a URL that they can then blog, tweet, do whatever they want to share it.

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Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin issued a scathing condemnation of Microsoft's recent attempts to unload Linux-related patents to patent trolls. He calls for the company to "stop secretly attacking Linux" and compete on the basis of quality rather than FUD.

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If you've been thinking about switching to a Linux netbook, laptop, or desktop, it's time to visit Dell. They have some nice hardware at prices anyone can afford and with the support you need to get going with desktop Linux.

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Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks.

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Dell conquers Europe with its Ubuntu netbooks, enters the Netherlands

With their new Latitude 2100 laptops, Dell is finally allowing Dutch consumers to pick Ubuntu as pre-installed operating system for their netbooks. Update: And it looks like Belgian customers can enjoy this deal too.

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Sony, which we've blasted in the past for an insistence on proprietary formats, will support the open standard ePub format for its ebook readers.

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Interesting little article. I have been following California's progress with their 'Open Textbook' project, basically eliminating texts for wikis created by teachers/SME/etc, but also using 'open source' digital texts.

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They've formed a group called Open Source for America, which seeks to make sure that government agencies at least consider open-source software as an option in their buying decisions.

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I'll be interested to hear the Linux crowd on Newsvine deconstruct this. Thoughts? Scathing criticisms?

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Chrome OS, Google's newly announced computer operating system, is coming this autumn and promises to revolutionize netbooks and other underpowered machines.

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In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs that is tied to its Chrome Web browser.

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Google Inc. is working on a new operating system for inexpensive computers in a daring attempt to wrest away Microsoft Corp.'s long-running control over people's computing experience.

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The meet-up in San Francisco last month had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party.

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These two boys with their talent and their constant engagement represent the model that today completely express the open source world; those peoples who voluntarily engage every day in order to supply to all of us with free and ease of use instruments that give us the possibilit …

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Google is looking to buy smaller technology companies to enhance its technology portfolio, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in an interview with the Fox Business network on Tuesday.

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