The Department of Education in the Australian state of New South Wales is putting OpenOffice on 40,000 school PCs and uninstalling Vista from every new machine it buys. It has also moved from a three-year Microsoft licence to a one-year licence.
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Microsoft to pay licence tax in India
Microsoft is liable to pay tax on its licences in India, according to a ruling from a tax authority.
The company, which is the largest software provider to the country, now has to pay tax on the licence fee which is charged to the user, reports the Economic Times. Such tax will be accumulated over the six years the ruling…. -
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ODF is now a Brazilian Standard: NBR ISO/IEC 26300 !!!
On the afternoon of last Tuesday (08/04), the final translated version of the ISO/IEC 26300 was approved by members of the ABNT’s committee responsible for that activity.
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Telstra-ACCC deal puts heat on Google
TELSTRA has settled a dispute with the ACCC over its classified advertising division’s actions, in a blow to search engine giant Google
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Red Hat Asks Federal Court To Limit Patents On Software
Today, Red Hat took a public stand challenging the standards for patenting software.
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State of the Linux union is sound
Before settling down to business at its Collaboration Summit in Austin today, the Linux Foundation heard a state of the Linux union talk from IDC.
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Telstra massively upgrades US-Australia undersea cable
Telstra has worked with Alcatel-Lucent to lay a 9,000 kilometre submarine cable between Hawaii and Australia, giving up to 1.28 Terabits per second of connectivity between the two countries.
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Linux Driver Project status report
The Linux Driver Project aims to help companies write open drivers for GNU/Linux. In this article, Greg K-H, a Linux kernel hacker, explains the history, status and future plans of this project.
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Programmer Destroys 7 Billion Dollar Industry
Spencer is the inventor of Asterisk, a free software program that establishes phone calls over the Internet. handles voicemail, caller ID, teleconferencing and other features for the phone.a decent-size company can rip out its traditional phone switch, even some of its newfangled Internet telephone gear, and say good-bye to 80% of its telecom costs