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EU: GNU celebrates 25th birthday — published on Sep 30, 2008

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The GNU project that pioneered Open Source software celebrated its 25 birthday this weekend.

RU: Russian Schools begin using GNU/Linux — published on Feb 05, 2008

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Schools in Russia are about to begin using GNU/Linux on the desktop. According to a news item by Cnews.ru, a Russian IT news site, a group of teachers of informatics in the Perm region received the first copies of GNU/Linux CDs, made especially for use in schools.

GL: IBM releases office suite based on OpenOffice — published on Sep 20, 2007

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IBM this week published Lotus Symphony, based on an earlier version of the OpenOffice. "It a suite of free software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations."

GL: Russia to use Open Document Format — published on Sep 19, 2007

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Russia will also adopt the ISO-approved Open Document Format (ODF) for government documents, according to a statement by the OpenDocument Format Alliance.

First release of Open Source health care system — published on Jul 31, 2007

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A British/Canadian software engineer specialised in healthcare this Monday released a proof of concept for an Open Source clinical information management system. Called PatientOS, the software is designed for hospitals and healthcare practitioners and released under the GNU GPL software license, version 3.

GL: Costs savings for schools switching to Open Source — published on Mar 16, 2007

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Saving costs is a motive for schools to start using Open Source applications. Soon school kids in Japan and California will be using GNU/Linux and other Open Source software applications in class.

GL: Sun and Microsoft both publish ODF plug-ins — published on Feb 28, 2007

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Users of Microsoft's word processing application Word can now import and export files that use the Open Document Format, ODF. In February both Microsoft and Sun Microsystems published conversion plug-ins.

GL: IBM, Google offer desktop alternatives — published on Feb 26, 2007

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IBM and Google this month each offered alternatives for running Microsoft Office applications on destop PCs.

Texas and Minnesota considering Open Document Format — published on Feb 15, 2007

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The US states Texas and Minnesota will consider adopting the Open Document Format (ODF) as a standard file format for government documents. Legislative bills proposing ODF have been introduced by senators in both states. Massachusetts decided to standardise on ODF in September 2005.