**OOXML LATEST**
UK standards body taken to court over OOXML
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2008-05-01
The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards body to recant its approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format.
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Open Parliament
Government Procurement
David Cameron: Innovation must be at the heart of public policy
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2008-04-04
"We will follow private sector best practice which is to introduce 'open standards' that enables IT contracts to be split up into modular components. So never again could there be projects like Labour's hubristic NHS supercomputer.…
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ODF Latest
EU Weekly Synopsis
5 May 2008 Sun to unveil open-source Solaris version
4 May 2008 Google yanks open-source project after copyright complaint
3 May 2008 Microsoft Uses Open Source Project To Extend Management To Linux
2 May 2008 Bringing Down the Language Barrier - Automatically
2 May 2008 Biggest ever Spanish open source agreement signed
2 May 2008 Open Source is the 'software establishment', report says
1 May 2008 Oracle says it’s playing by open source community rules
1 May 2008 AMD reveals open source client management tool
1 May 2008 Adobe’s Open Source Project: Free Access For Rapid Innovation
30 April 2008 Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus Vow to Encourage Open-Source Drivers
30 April 2008 Sun extends open source storage
29 April 2008 Microsoft embraces and extends server promiscuity
29 April 2008 Open Source's Hidden Trap: IP Liabilities
29 April 2008 Social Networking and Open Source: Cut From the Same Cloth
NEWS FROM IDABC OPEN SOURCE OBSERVATORY
Austria: Education Ministry plans increase of Open Source in schools [29 April 2008]
France: Law directorate moves to OpenOffice [29 April 2008]
Latvia: City council to provide OpenOffice courses [29 April 2008]
France: Paris district 'should switch to Open Source' [29 April 2008]
4 May 2008 Google yanks open-source project after copyright complaint
3 May 2008 Microsoft Uses Open Source Project To Extend Management To Linux
2 May 2008 Bringing Down the Language Barrier - Automatically
2 May 2008 Biggest ever Spanish open source agreement signed
2 May 2008 Open Source is the 'software establishment', report says
1 May 2008 Oracle says it’s playing by open source community rules
1 May 2008 AMD reveals open source client management tool
1 May 2008 Adobe’s Open Source Project: Free Access For Rapid Innovation
30 April 2008 Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus Vow to Encourage Open-Source Drivers
30 April 2008 Sun extends open source storage
29 April 2008 Microsoft embraces and extends server promiscuity
29 April 2008 Open Source's Hidden Trap: IP Liabilities
29 April 2008 Social Networking and Open Source: Cut From the Same Cloth
NEWS FROM IDABC OPEN SOURCE OBSERVATORY
Austria: Education Ministry plans increase of Open Source in schools [29 April 2008]
France: Law directorate moves to OpenOffice [29 April 2008]
Latvia: City council to provide OpenOffice courses [29 April 2008]
France: Paris district 'should switch to Open Source' [29 April 2008]