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“All new software developed for or by the government is to be based on open standards and licensed under an open source licence where possible.” – Using, developing, training and promotion of FOSS by the South African Government. Interesting stuff!

This is old, but interesting. “The EULA sounds like it was written by a team of lawyers who want to tell me what I can’t do, and the GPL sounds like it was written by a human being who wants me to know what I can do.”

“Jive goes head-to-head with Microsoft’s SharePoint” – ZDNet – Sharepoint is the new lock-in for Microsoft, and it’s great to see competitors hopefully giving people reason to pause when considering the Microsoft Sharepoint slippery slope. Note – Clearspa

“And for those Windows programs that we can’t replace … well, we’re going to allow Bill to continue to run a small corner of our IT commonwealth, which we call Tasmania.” – Bleedingedge.com – Hilarious 🙂

“I am a girl, but girls do not exist on the internet.” – Really interesting article about being a female online gamer, and the weird stuff you have to deal with. I totally can relate 🙂

I’m all for ways to get more young people into IT, especially more women, but this moronic statement just re-enforces the assumption girls won’t enjoy real IT jobs! Argh!! “McNaught admitted she was no IT boffin but said she worked in the fun side of the

“Federal government agencies are adopting free and open source software (FOSS) with increasing zeal, according to a new study undertaken by the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO).” – Article on the AGIMO survey of FOSS in Federal

“Open Source communities and vendors are now providing mature solutions for corporate Informations Systems. CIO & IT professionnals will find here the resources they need to identify candidate solutions.” – Really useful resource for finding commercial gr

This is a clever response to the youtube video delivered by Australia’s Prime Minister on climate warming. It is interesting that Howard used youtube, and satisfying to have a public mechanism for commentary. Bring on the comments. Original post here http

“He wouldn’t be prime minister if Kim Beazley could tell his arse from his elbow” – Bob Hawke. “John Howard, is he the guy who played Ritchie on Happy Days?”. Funny animation interview with John Howard! Help, help! I’m stuck on youtube.

An amazing song covered by an amazing man. Beautiful video clip of Johnny Cash covering Nine Inch Nails’ song, Hurt.

Wow! That is all. I totally want me one of these.