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Russia Moves to Linux In 2011

Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, signed a government order for the transition of federal executive bodies and agencies of the federal budget to use free software between 2011 - 2015.According to the document signed on December 17th, 2010, the Russian government will have to dump proprietary s...

28 December 2010
09:36 GMT

82% of Open Source Software Plays Nice with Windows

More and more open source pieces of software are compatible with the Windows operating system, according to statistics from the Geeknet network. Asked by Microsoft to deliver a perspective over Windows’ position in relation to the open source ecosystem, Geeknet revealed that, at the end of 2009, over 82% of ope...

12 March 2010
16:01 GMT

Open Source Preferred over Proprietary Software, Microsoft Takes Another Hit

On the heels of Microsoft's new-found commitment to interoperability, a path that also focuses on open source solutions, as well as the February €899 million antitrust financial penalty from the EU Commission, the Redmond company has taken yet another hit in the European arena. In this context, the European Comm...

14 March 2008
13:25 GMT

Source Code for OSS to Be Opened Up

As I was wandering around on the OpenSolaris Forums not long ago, I stumbled upon a little post announcing an open sourcing of Open Sound. This opening up is scheduled for June 14th and it is said that the project initiators would be offering the source code under CDDL to Solaris and GPLv2 for Linux BSD, OpenServer ...

8 June 2007
10:41 GMT


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