Open Source
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The government open source dynamic | The Register
2+ year old article but still quite relevant.
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Promotion of open standards in Poland | EDRI
“The coalition aims at taking measures to ensure freedom of choice for IT solutions for Polish citizens as well as businesses and administration bodies by enforcing open standards for information storage and exchange.”
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Start-up looks to open source as business model | CNET News.com
“The Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI), headed by former OSDL chief Stuart Cohen, will match companies that are looking to pool resources as a way to decrease software costs and ensure standards compliance.”
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“But for most other Linux fans, the upcoming release of Ubuntu Version 7.04 on April 19 demands more attention.”
Open Documents
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An Antic Disposition: The Case for a Single Document Format: Part II
“In this post, Part II, we’ll try to explain the forces that tend to unify or divide standards and hopefully make sense of what we saw in Part I.”
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An Antic Disposition: The Case for a Single Document Format: Part III
“In this Part III we’ll look at the document formats in particular, how we got to the present point, and how and why historically there has always been but a single document format.”
Standards
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“OASIS began its review of the WS-BPEL specification in 2003, and its approval of WS-BPEL 2.0 for the first time establishes an officially approved version of the specification.”
Writing Letters
Virtual Worlds
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Atari Planning User-Created Virtual World – MarketingVOX
“Atari is developing a user-created online social world, upping the number of upcoming virtual worlds emphasizing user-developed content to eleven, according to GigaOM (via MCV).”
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Alternatives To Second Life – Uber Edition – Second Life Games
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“Multiverse lets you to build an MMOG or virtual world for less money and in less time than ever before.”
