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more »Red Hat vs. Switzerland:Official Complaint Against 40 Million Swiss Franc Contract
May 25, 2009In February, the Swiss Federal Office for Construction and Logistics (Bundesamt für Bauten und Logistik, or BBL) sealed a deal with Microsoft for an estimated 35-million-dollars worth of licenses. Red Hat, along with 17 other Open Source enterprises, has filed an official complaint.
more »Spanish Government Reconsiders School Laptop Project
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more »Microsoft Patent: More Money for Less Functions
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more »ODF Alliance: Microsoft Support for ODF is Lacking
May 20, 2009The Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance has analyzed whether Microsoft’s Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 fulfills the promise for compatibility with the free document standard. Their findings give little reason to hope.
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more »Ksplice Awarded $100K from MIT
May 15, 2009The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has awarded this year's annual Entrepreneurship Competition award (the so-called "Hundred K") to the makers of Ksplice on May 13 in Cambridge. The kernel patch software Ksplice won the main award and also in the Web/IT category.
more »EU Fines Intel a Record 1.06 Billion Euro
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