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Norway coughs up the kroners to support use of open source software in the public sector

Posted November 18th, 2008 by New Media Rights

Norway has decided to commit money to adapt the OpenOffice suite for various government uses. This follows a commitment by Norway in 2006 to use more open source software in government functions. It will be interesting to see if any developments and modifications get picked up and used or modified by other governments.

Legal Guide to GPL Compliance - Software Freedom Law Center

Posted September 8th, 2008 by New Media Rights

The Software Freedom Law Center has released a Legal Guide to GPL Compliance. This guide is largely targeted at those who seek to commercialize free and open source software. It is reproduced in its entirety below. 

Google hopes to shape web's future with Chrome

Posted September 3rd, 2008 by dillon coil

In an apparent attempt to control the future of web browsing technology Google has developed an extremely fast and innovative browser called Chrome. But what are they really up to?

Sun: Java will be free this year

The only element that's left now is actually a sound-related component within Java. We finally decided that the vendor that's involved there just isn't going to play ball and we're rewriting the code from scratch. That's going to be done within the next couple of months."

Phipps says Java is expected to be completely free within the coming few months.

"I'm expecting that certainly by the end of this year and hopefully sooner we'll have all of the source code for Java under the GPL", he said. - ZDNet Asia

New York commits to open formats as Microsoft supports ODF

Posted May 26th, 2008 by New Media Rights

via ZDNet's Richard Koman, "New York's CIO, Dr. Melodie Mayberry-Stewart, submitted a report to the governor and legislature , embracing open document formats but steering clear of picking favorites."

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