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| 31 Dec 2005 | BBC Opens news archive for a trial period - Nearly 80 news reports covering iconic events of the past 50 years, released under Creative Commons licence.
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| 25 Dec 2005 | Science’s list of the top 10 scientific developments in 2005 - Chosen for their profound implications for society and the advancement of science.
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| 18 Dec 2005 | ZNet interveiw with Richard Stallman - a summary of the Free Software Movement from one of the founders (who is arguably the father of FOSS).
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| 15 Dec 2005 | MIT Picks Maker of $100 Laptop
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| 15 Dec 2005 | Wikipedia accuracy compares well to Britannica - Wikipedia digs deeper and also on BBC
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| 13 Dec 2005 | Novell Secures Major Enterprise Linux Agreement With Swiss Government - Over 3,000 Servers
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| 9 Dec 2005 | NHS Connecting for Health announces deal with Novell - £21.8 million agreement for "a pervasive managed desktop environment with a lower total cost of ownership throughout the NHS"
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| 8 Dec 2005 | Mannheim City to switch 3,500 desktops and 145 applications to Linux, OOo and OpenDocument - mentions getting user acceptance as a key strategy for migration.
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| 7 Dec 2005 | Open Source Hardware? - And now Sun are going one step further...
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| 7 Dec 2005 | EULAs, indemnification, and user protection - How some distributions are dealing with the Patent problem by adding indemnification clauses to the EULA.
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| 5 Dec 2005 | Classic poets' voices go online - Historic recordings online at the Poetry Archive
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| 4 Dec 2005 | The $100 laptop question - Comment on the OLPC by John Naughton in The Observer. Note: Amongst other things John Naughton is a founder of the Ndiyo utra-thin-client, affordable networking project.
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| 3 Dec 2005 | Chancellor launches review of UK intellectual property regime - Report due in August 2006
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| 2 Dec 2005 | Sun puts more software under open source licence - All but core Java technology will be available under CDDL. Here's an analysis of the new strategy and Sun are even giving away hardware now as they go after income from support fees.
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| 30 Nov 2005 | Up to 10% of US net users 'addicted, needing therapy' - Seriously...
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| 30 Nov 2005 | Preliminary results from desktop Linux survey published by Open Source Development Labs
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| 30 Nov 2005 | Firefox 1.5 is available for download - Many useful improvements.
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| 22 Nov 2005 | Dan Briklin releases WikiCalc Alpha - clever merger of Wiki and spreadsheet functionality with flexible deployment, could even support ODF.
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| 21 Nov 2005 | Microsoft to give Office access to rivals - Plans to submit file formats to ECMA/ISO. See also Groklaw.
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| 20 Nov 2005 | Owning Ideas - Helpful review in The Guardian about patenting vs. innovation
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| 15 Nov 2005 | OSDL Launches Patent Commons Reference Library - Further explained by Groklaw here
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| 13 Nov 2005 | NewsForge presents free OpenOffice.org training videos - Creative Commons licence, require Flash 6 or higher.
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| 13 Nov 2005 | Preview of MIT's $100 One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) - More design details here
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| 10 Nov 2005 | IBM, Sony, Philips, Red Hat & Novell for Open Invention Network (OIN) - To protect vendors and customers from Linux patent disputes.
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| 10 Nov 2005 | It's already done in Extremadura - 80,000 desktop PCs running Linux, 66,000 in schools...
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| 9 Nov 2005 | Industry leaders to promote Open Document Format - Report of yesterday's meeting hosted by IBM and Sun
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| 9 Nov 2005 | Open University chooses Moodle
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| 9 Nov 2005 | Sun Grid offers Word to ODF conversion service - Plus a text to audio service.
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| 8 Nov 2005 | Bill Thompson interviews Tim O'Reilly - Part 1 and audio - Part 2 and audio
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| 7 Nov 2005 | SchoolTool Looking for Partners - The Shuttleworth Foundation is looking for schools to test its school management system.
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| 1 Nov 2005 | Open Document Format decision challenged in Massachusetts - Groklaw reports on MA Senate hearing.
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| 31 Oct 2005 | Google throws bodies at OpenOffice
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| 17 Oct 2005 | Royal Society of Arts promotes The Adelphi Charter - "The intellectual-property system is starting to lean so far in favor of private enrichment that it no longer serves the public interest". See also The Economist
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| 14 Oct 2005 | Information Week Report: Linux is Cheaper, More Reliable and Secure, Encourages Innovation - Report highlights by Groklaw
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| 14 Oct 2005 | Field trip to Indiana schools - Linspire CEO reports on 1:1 computing
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| 13 Oct 2005 | Edubuntu makes its debut! - Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" goes to school
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| 12 Oct 2005 | Macedonia deploys 5000 Ubuntu desktops in schools
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| 11 Oct 2005 | Consortium launched to support OpenDocument - Expect to hear much more about the OpenDocument Fellowship
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| 7 Oct 2005 | Chinese Schools To Deploy 142,000 Linux Desktops - Gulp!
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| 7 Oct 2005 | More OpenDocument News - From Groklaw
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| 7 Oct 2005 | Google-Sun alliance hints at future deals
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| 7 Oct 2005 | Powys Schools awarded for best public sector open source implementation - See bottom of article & this summary
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| 30 Sep 2005 | Becta introduce single sign-on using Open Source Shibboleth - It's not clear what the news is as this appeared in in ZDNet in Nov. See this presentation for details of the project.
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| 30 Sep 2005 | Wikibooks takes on textbook industry - CNet News.com
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| 27 Sep 2005 | Spec for $100 windup Linux educational laptop - and Indian plans for a $70 thin client.
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| 27 Sep 2005 | Microsoft Windows Officially Broken
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| 27 Sep 2005 | Peru passes free software bill - Groklaw has links to the law in English and Spanish
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| 22 Sep 2005 | UK school switches to Linux - Well done Sirius!
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| 22 Sep 2005 | RM wins £37.5m Scottish schools deal
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| 15 Sep 2005 | Why Linux is the Logical Choice for the Classroom - Useful advocacy reference.
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| 9 Sep 2005 | BBC video clips are Open Content - new competition to win VJ equipment by creating a mix with the clips.
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| 9 Sep 2005 | Firefox web browser 1.5 Beta 1 released - New features for earlier adopters
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| 8 Sep 2005 | Secrets laid bare - Guardian article about open source approaches in the wider community
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| 7 Sep 2005 | Gnome desktop 2.12 released - There are many improvements which will start to appear in the Linux distros that use Gnome including Edubuntu.
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| 5 Sep 2005 | FLOSS public web stations for Katrina refuges - Already 25 workstations in Dallas
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| 5 Sep 2005 | South Korea adopts FLOSS for schools MIS - Consortium includes Samsung SDS
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| 5 Sep 2005 | French Ministry of Agriculture adopts Mandriva - Google translation of announcement in French
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| 5 Sep 2005 | Sheffield FLOSS Conference on 28th Sept - OSCARS - Open Source Choices And Resources for Schools
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| 2 Sep 2005 | Computing's copy on the Becta MIS report - a useful summary
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| 1 Sep 2005 | New FE MIS project launched
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| 1 Sep 2005 | Italian schools upgrade to GNU/Linux - Also reported in ZDNet and LWN
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| 1 Sep 2005 | Massachusetts opts for Open Document standard - Discussion and links at Groklaw - Did Microsoft send the wrong guy?
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| 1 Sep 2005 | Latest GoDigital covers Namibia's use of technology - including Schoolnet Namibia's use of Open source. Audio stream, MP3 and podcast.
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| 31 Aug 2005 | South Africa drives for Open Source Software - Government and software industry meet to encourage FLOSS use.
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| 30 Aug 2005 | 5 Reasons not to use Linux - Tongue in cheek, good points (slow at momoment).
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| 30 Aug 2005 | Review of OpenOffice 2.0 v.s. MS Office - Poor quality and biased but discussion has some good points.
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| 25 Aug 2005 | Open Source for home users - a balanced introduction for new comers.
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| 22 Aug 2005 | Educational Software for the PC Takes a Nose Dive - New York Times (registration required)
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| 22 Aug 2005 | Shuttleworth: Open source ‘unstoppable'
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| 19 Aug 2005 | Becta calls for massive overhaul of schools MIS provision
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| 18 Aug 2005 | Open Source Software and Schools: New Opportunities and Directions
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| 16 Aug 2005 | Two thirds of UK senior IT staff expect Open Source strategy
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| 11 Aug 2005 | Ugandan university switches to Linux - OSS provides a better learning environment.
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| 11 Aug 2005 | Citizens do media for themselves - grassroots collaborative emerging media
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| 11 Aug 2005 | Debian-Edu release Sarge-based version of Skolelinux - With support for PowerPC thin clients
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| 11 Aug 2005 | LTSP scoops "Best of Show" award at Linux World San Francisco
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| 11 Aug 2005 | French students to get Linux CDs
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| 11 Aug 2005 | HP VP asks IBM and Sun to change their OSS licenses to GPL for the good of Linux and FLOSS
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| 11 Aug 2005 | Thai government to give schoolchildren 500,000 Linux laptops - But not as good as it sounds?.
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| 11 Aug 2005 | Why governments and Google choose Open Source and Linux
"More than 125 national open-source policies have been proposed worldwide during the past few years"
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| 10 Aug 2005 | Computer Games to be tested in classrooms
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| 10 Aug 2005 | OSDL Announces Patent Commons Project - With a comment from GROKLAW
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| 10 Aug 2005 | DesktopBSD = FreeBSD + KDE - a mature alternative to Linux
See slashdot thread with opinions on BSD vs. Linux
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| 10 Aug 2005 | OpenSUSE now live
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| 9 Aug 2005 | Upgrade of Eduforge.org - Versatile hosting for educational FLOSS collaboration
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| 9 Aug 2005 | Diffusion pattern of Linux: An assessment on major technological dimensions - How to grow Linux faster.
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| 3 Aug 2005 | Software Freedom Day - 10th September 2005
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| 3 Aug 2005 | Novell frees SUSE Professional under new branding - see SUSE Professional
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| 2 Aug 2005 | Richard Stallman writes in The Guardian - Free software proponents have bought time, but not much.
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| 1 Aug 2005 | New rating scheme for Open Source
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| 1 Aug 2005 | Open Source for Digital Curation
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| 31 Jul 2005 | Kenya pilots Pocket PC education - from the eduvision project.
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| 29 Jul 2005 | New Oreilly book on Moodle (item from Mamading Ceesay)
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| 29 Jul 2005 | Opening up challenges to MicrosoftL: Bill Thompson's latest BBC news post
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| | and the Offical Microsoft line from Bill Hilf and yet more from Bill in response to /. questions
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| 29 Jul 2005 | Firefox Downloads Top 75 million, Mozilla Expands
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| 28 Jul 2005 | Interviews with Louis Suárez-Potts (OpenOffice.org), Karl Fogel (Subversion) and Jeff Bates (Sourceforge) shed light on Open Source projects
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| 26 Jul 2005 | Inkscape 0.42 released with many new features
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| 25 Jul 2005 | The latest OSS Watch Briefings
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| 19 Jul 2005 | NZ schools get open source for less
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| 19 Jul 2005 | UN at odds over internet's future - (Future role of ICANN)
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| 18 Jul 2005 | High-quality open source isn't a surprise, it's [statistically] inevitable
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| 16 Jul 2005 | BBC publicises its open source projects
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| 11 Jul 2005 | Presentations from OSS Watch Building Open Source Communities conference
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| 11 Jul 2005 | Norwegian public sector plans for open source
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| 11 Jul 2005 | Climate change benefits of Ultra Thin Client at G8 Summit
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| 06 Jul 2005 | EU parliament to decide on controversial software patents - Update: CII directive is thrown out
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| 03 Jul 2005 | BBC on Becta TCO report and Parrs Wood
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| 01 Juy 2005 | Edubuntu Summit: Eat your heart out! - Norway, Andalusia, Estremadura, Valencia, South Africa...
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| 30 Jun 2005 | LiveLAMP CD bootable server to be released
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| 30 Jun 2005 | Assistive Technology with Terminal Servers - new Schoolforge project.
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| 28 Jun 2005 | Specialist Schools Trust use open source! (LAMS)
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| 28 Jun 2005 | Knoppix 40 DVD Preview
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| 24 Jun 2005 | Review: Freeduc, an educational live CD
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| 24 Jun 2005 | Websites alienate Open Source and Disabled users
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| 21 Jun 2005 | Korea brings homegrown open source to 10,000 schools
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| 20 Jun 2005 | EU software patents directive continues to 2nd reading
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| 20 Jun 2005 | Government launches open source test lab
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| 19 Jun 2005 | Microsoft's New Accessibility Model to be Offered as Cross-Platform Solution for Industry
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| 18 Jun 2005 | TES online - Development of the Open Source Community
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| 17 Jun 2005 | IPPR Creative Britannia - Minister launches public forum
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| 17 Jun 2005 | Kent Schools - Heads' US Microsoft tour
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| 16 Jun 2005 | Linus Torvalds interviewed - by a pupil
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| 15 Jun 2005 | Status of European software patents directive: not good
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| 14 Jun 2005 | Microsoft Interoperability - How well are they doing?
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| 14 Jun 2005 | New Zealand leads international charge against DRM
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| 13 Jun 2005 | OSS Watch conference - Building Open Source Communities
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| 12 Jun 2005 | Innovation, the BECTA Report and Specialist Schools
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| 10 Jun 2005 | Nesta Futurelab Viewpoint article on FLOSS
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| 10 Jun 2005 | Michigan & Indiana consider state-wide FLOSS deployment
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| 10 Jun 2005 | Scott McNealy on the Digital Divide
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| 10 Jun 2005 | Free Software Collaboration Google Group
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| 9 Jun 2005 | Something to think about - FreeNX
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| 6 Jun 2005 | Open Source Goes Gaelic
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| 6 Jun 2005 | WIPO Wants Your Feedback
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| 5 Jun 2005 | RepRap: Bath Replicating Rapid Prototyper Project
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| 4 Jun 2005 | K12EdCom.org Announcement
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| 3 Jun 2005 | Brazil adopts open-source software
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| 3 Jun 2005 | Google's Summer of Code
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| 2 Jun 2005 | Test Linux Desktop. Now!
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| 1 Jun 2005 | CNET Technology Awards - Open Source Initiative of the Year (Schoolforge-UK is applying)
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| 1 Jun 2005 | DTI to co-fund NetProject desktop Linux R&D
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| 26 May 2005 | Red Hat to Open-Source Netscape Directory
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| 24 May 2005 | NewsForge covers Moodle
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| 20 May 2005 | Microsoft Developing Windows for Low-End Machines
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| 19 May 2005 | EU seeks 'legally clever' patent definition
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| 17 May 2005 | FSF and OO.org team up to escape Java trap
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| 16 May 2005 | FLOSSIE 2005 - 14th & 15th July at Bolton TIC
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| 16 May 2005 | Birmingham City Council trials Open Source desktops
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| 13 May 2005 | Becta report on Open Source Software in Schools (with developments)
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| 13 May 2005 | Wine development stifled by software patent
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| 13 May 2005 | Developers to play with BBC wares
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| 12 May 2005 | Key Advantage of Open Source is Not Cost Savings
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| 11 May 2005 | Local Government Looks to Linux
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| 9 May 2005 | Microsoft rethinks approach to Open Source
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| 6 May 2005 | TES: Ditching Microsoft can save millions
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| 5 May 2005 | Open Source Briefing Day at University of Hertfordshire
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| 5 May 2005 | Open source groups ally to target schools
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| 2 May 2005 | ESchool article - Snippets from USA
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| 1 May 2005 | Connexions: Free learning resources
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