[dundee] Red Hat Sues Switzerland

[gordon dunlop]

Red Hat are suing the Federal government of Switzerland for not open
tendering their contracts:

http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/red-hat-sues-switzerland-over-microsoft-monopoly-965

There seems to be a lot of news on the education front, this is an article
on free software in education:

http://xpapad.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/free-software-in-education/

Open source is used at the Oregon State University Labs (Gentoo):

http://sheltren.com/students_in_oss

Arguments in Spain about their school laptop project:

http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/spanish_government_reconsiders_school_laptop_project

The Vancouver City Council are starting to embrace open source (Dundee did
this years ago):

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/05/22/tech-vancouver-open-source-standards-software-city.html?ref=rss

This should be interesting, an ex-Microsoft employee has written a book on
open source:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/052109-ex-microsoftie-free-software-will-kill.html

Finally, in relation to Arron's earlier email about Software Freedom Day,
this is the website:

http://softwarefreedomday.org/

What was done last year:

http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/europe/uk/abertay-dundee

Gordon
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