The Victorian state government's newly appointed chief technical officer Tony Aitkenhead is standing firm and refusing to buckle to demands from industry body Open Source Victoria (OSV) to adopt Australian Capital Territory-style open source procurement legislation.
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The Australian Capital Territory has become the first Australian jurisdiction to mandate the consideration of open source software for government entities after a bill proposed by ACT Democrats leader Roslyn Dundas was passed into law this week.
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Advice by State Services Commissioner Michael Wintringham that government agencies should consider open source software does not contradict a previous evaluation by e-government unit head Brendan Boyle that there was a lack of interest in such software, Boyle says.
New Zealand governments have a proud history of making progressive policy decisions. We banned nuclear warships from our harbours. We pioneered the nanny state. New Zealand women got the vote long before their sisters elsewhere in the world.
Frustrated by budget woes and incompatible IT systems among state agencies, an Oregon legislator has introduced a bill requiring the agencies to at least consider open-source software when making future IT purchases.
Open source seminars sponsored by the National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) may become a regular feature in Canberra after a successful gathering of speakers and CIOs from government departments and agencies earlier this week.
News perspective: While open-source technologies did not completely loosen the iron grip of proprietary technologies in 2002, CTOs began to seriously examine the potential of open source. Most of the attention focused on Linux development and on several industry organisations devoted to creating open standards around web services.
A public library in the small town of Nelsonville in Ohio has become the latest customer for the New Zealand-developed Koha open source library application suite.
As Microsoft’s Tech-Ed, the biggest developer event on the calendar, takes place in Auckland this week, open source software is unlikely to be much talked about. That’s because developers divide pretty much into two camps: those who see benefits in sharing code among a community of programmers and those, exemplified by Microsoft, who believe in holding firmly to code ownership. Computerworld invited Peter Harrison (below), an open source advocate, and Tony Stewart (see How open is open anyway?), a proprietary software believer, to argue their corners.
As Microsoft’s Tech-Ed, the biggest developer event on the calendar, takes place in Auckland this week, open source software is unlikely to be much talked about. That’s because developers divide pretty much into two camps: those who see benefits in sharing code among a community of programmers and those, exemplified by Microsoft, who believe in holding firmly to code ownership. Computerworld invited Peter Harrison (see Open up to opportunity), an open source advocate, and Tony Stewart (see below), a proprietary software believer, to argue their corners.
Global Online Promotions has been using Linux as the platform for its Kachingo rewards scheme, though it is considering moving to Unix if it expands to the UK.