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Yahoo News: "Quebec's open-source software association is suing the provincial government, saying it is giving preferential treatment to Microsoft Corp. by buying the company's products rather than using free alternatives."

Computerworld UK: "On it was a differentiation between proprietary software; free software and open source software.

Naturally I asked the presenter for clarification of the terms as I was a little confused. He was unable to clarify..."

"Sure, we have to be balanced and fair; Microsoft can't take all the credit. There have been remarkable advances in the world of open source software that have reached the public eye." Complete Story

Utah software company Novell employs 150 people in Dublin . The advent of open source software, particularly Linux, gave this long-standing IT giant a new lease of life.

Mathieu Lutfy writes "The CBC is reporting that "Quebec's open-source software association is suing the provincial government, saying it is giving preferential treatment to Microsoft Corp. by buying the company's products rather than using free alternatives.

"...Government buyers are using an exception in provincial law that allows them to buy directly from a proprietary vendor when there are no options available, but Facil said that loophole is being abused and goes against other legal requirements to buy locally.".

Just announced today (27 August 2008), The Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) and the Ministry of Education (MoE) are working with the State Government of Terengganu to further increase the adoption of Open Source Software in government and schools.

I was reading this OStatic interview with Ken Drachnik , marketing manager for open source software infrastructure products at Sun and a co-founder of GlassFish , and it made me wonder if it's time for some ...

By Rick Whiting , ChannelWeb 3:12 PM EDT Mon. Aug. 25, 2008 Open-source software vendor Red Hat has released an update to OpenSSH packages relating to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux software after hackers ...

Although open source software has gained a place in enterprise networks alongside proprietary software, it can't seem to shake doubts about security and intellectual-property issues that have long dogged the ...

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