Red Hat are suing the Federal government of Switzerland for not open tendering their contracts:<br><br><a href="http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/red-hat-sues-switzerland-over-microsoft-monopoly-965">http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/red-hat-sues-switzerland-over-microsoft-monopoly-965</a><br>
<br>There seems to be a lot of news on the education front, this is an article on free software in education:<br><br><a href="http://xpapad.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/free-software-in-education/">http://xpapad.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/free-software-in-education/</a><br>
<br>Open source is used at the Oregon State University Labs (Gentoo):<br><br><a href="http://sheltren.com/students_in_oss">http://sheltren.com/students_in_oss</a><br><br>Arguments in Spain about their school laptop project: <br>
<br><a href="http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/spanish_government_reconsiders_school_laptop_project">http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/spanish_government_reconsiders_school_laptop_project</a><br><br>The Vancouver City Council are starting to embrace open source (Dundee did this years ago):<br>
<br><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/05/22/tech-vancouver-open-source-standards-software-city.html?ref=rss">http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/05/22/tech-vancouver-open-source-standards-software-city.html?ref=rss</a><br>
<br>This should be interesting, an ex-Microsoft employee has written a book on open source:<br><br><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/052109-ex-microsoftie-free-software-will-kill.html">http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/052109-ex-microsoftie-free-software-will-kill.html</a><br>
<br>Finally, in relation to Arron's earlier email about Software Freedom Day, this is the website:<br><br><a href="http://softwarefreedomday.org/">http://softwarefreedomday.org/</a><br><br>What was done last year:<br>
<br><a href="http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/europe/uk/abertay-dundee">http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/europe/uk/abertay-dundee</a><br><br>Gordon<br><br>