Championing ICT in London's voluntary and community sector
Apr 21 2008
Interesting stuff over at Tom Slee’s Whimsley, which dissects a new report from the Linux Foundation, documenting how the world’s biggest open source project has shifted during its 17 year life from a volunteer effort to the realm of mega-bucks corporate development. According to the report, just 4 companies -Red Hat, Novell, IBM and Intel [...]
Oct 15 2007
Over on Kablenet, Liberal Democrat MP Dr John Pugh (nice open source web site, sir) believes that the government is unwittingly creating a Microsoft monopoly in its delivery of online services because, in many cases, the public can only access them by using Windows software. In a Commons debate last week, Pugh went on to [...]
Oct 04 2007
One from the world of free and open source software… Free Software Foundation Europe and M6-IT is running a one day event at The Hub in London on the 2nd of November to help people with with little or no experience of Free Software spread awareness of Free Software in their field or geographical area. [...]
Jun 25 2007
In a late breaking story – that many will regard as good news for the open source community – Friday’s The Register warns that Microsoft is unexpectedly withdrawing the Microsoft Authorised Refurbishment (MAR) program. Under a special licence, authorised refurbishers could install Windows XP or Windows 2000 and Office XP Standard as one bundled package [...]
Feb 23 2007
For those of you who missed it, BBC Radio 4′s ClickOn technology show talked briefly about the benefits of free and open source software for the voluntary sector (open source software, unlike proprietary or licensed software, is free of charge and users can access the ‘source code’ to alter the software to meet their specific [...]
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UK riders email list - a discussion group for circuit riders and others who support third sector technology.
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