Thursday, November 08, 2007

K-12 Open Source News, 8 November 2007

In the News

Business Wire reports, "...(A) study reveals Feds increasing appetite for open source 71 percent of respondents note that their agency can benefit from open source... The full study is available for download at www.federalopensourcealliance.com."

From The NonProfit Times, "...the race is on to 'open' the various systems so that they can integrate with software from other vendors."

PC World reveals, "Autodesk recently announced plans to donate its coordinate system (CS) and map projection technology to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)."


On the Blogosphere

In the second of a three part series, Serdar Yegulalp, writes, "In the first post in this series, I talked about how open-source operating systems were one of a galaxy of three major and complementary forces. The second, and in some ways more important force, is open-source applications."

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