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“Results of Australia’s first large-scale Open Source community census have been released to the public. [The report] gives voice to the business potentials, patterns and concerns of a previously mute sector of the IT industry.”
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“Australian senator, Karen Lundy, believes US software ‘lock-in’ reduces both competition and technology innovation, thereby hurting the Australian technology market.” — They always get our names wrong! Senator KATE Lundy’s comments noted in the USA.
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“The developers of GTK are preparing for a major overhaul that aims to resolve many of the framework’s most significant deficiencies and add next-generation features that will increase flexibility and simplify development.” — Great summary from Ryan.
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Perhaps the following article might be noteworthy for your next “link aggregation”?
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/German-MEP-says-Microsoft-should-be-excluded-from-EU-contracts–/110518
Have a nice weekend!
What’s with this obsession with nationalism in technical matters? I don’t understand it. AES was created by two Flemish cryptographers, yet the US government adopted it. Worrying about some American company (or one based anywhere else) suddenly deciding to betray all its customers is tilting at windmills; they have no plausible rationale for doing so, and in the scenarios where it could even be considered there would be far more pressing concerns. Reinvention for the sake of reinvention by you is just not-invented-here syndrome.
I don’t believe it’s simple nationalism, nor do I think it has anything to do with reinvention — in fact, much the opposite: Open Source allows us to build on the shared work of the world, while investing in local skills and business.
Sure, the open source angle’s not unreasonable. The US lock-in angle, however, is specious.