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Open source in government: Forget support, focus on value

While government departments remain concerned about the implications of using open source, successful projects have overcome that concern by simply demonstrating better value for money.
Open source developers: protect yourself or face the music

In the wake of the ongoing SCO lawsuit, open source developers must take steps to ensure they don't become the victims of further legal action.
Bugs threaten Linux stability, Morton warns

A lack of commitment to testing by the Linux community may ultimately threaten the stability of the operating system, Linux kernel co-maintainer Andrew Morton has warned.
Tridgell speaks out in BitKeeper war

Andrew Tridgell has made his first public comments on the dispute between himself and Linux originator Linus Torvalds over source code management for the Linux kernel.

Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
Google should come clean on datacentres
It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
US shows what OPEL could have been
Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
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