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Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst issued a statement on Monday applauding President Obama for bringing a culture of openness and participatory governance to the White House. According to Whitehurst, the Obama administration’s commitment to transparency and inclusiveness reflects the same values that are found at the core of the community-driven open source software [...]

The Federal Health Architecture project released into the public domain the code for Connect, a software gateway that will let organizations outside the federal government share health information via the National Health Information Network.
Any public or private sector organization can download the Connect software and tie into the NHIN once it goes into full [...]

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Red Hat’s CEO, in a blog post on Monday, is endorsing the Obama Administration’s call for openness and participation in government by likening the President’s statement to the open source software movement.
Linking to a White House statement in which President Obama calls for transparency, participation, and collaboration in government, Red [...]

The Hungarian government has announced that it will be modifying procurement rules to allow open source to be used in public sector organisations. Previously, procurement rules had apparently named vendors such as Microsoft and Novell. The new rules, according to Ferenc Baja, deputy minister for information technology, will allocate the same amount of money to [...]

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Open source software from Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) is enabling the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to build a secure, open technology platform to connect federal government agencies and health information exchanges in a “network of networks”–the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN)–built over the Internet. [...]

If you haven’t read the news, the Australian state of New South Wales has signed a deal to deploy 267,000 Windows netbooks into secondary schools, as part of the Australian federal government’s multi-billion dollar netbook-in-schools programme. This was a golden opportunity to explore the deployment of Linux and open source software in education. An opportunity [...]

The economic stimulus law mentions health information technology dozens of times, establishing an agenda to promote electronic health records, form standards committees and work out health information privacy and security impasses.
However, the $20 billion package also contains a more obscure provision that has buoyed hopes among advocates of open-source technologies projects that have struggled [...]

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The Obama campaign was not afraid to defy the rules — because it had to. The only way for Obama to succeed against two political veterans was to play a different game. Now in office, President Obama has the opportunity to take the federal government in a new direction as well.
The Obama campaign [...]

Europe now has its own version of the GPL.
It’s got copyleft, but it lacks the extra language found in GPLv3 meant to enforce that concept.
The European Union Public License is an effort by EU government services to codify a Euro-centric view of copyleft, in 22 languages. (Nathan White has a giant version of this Tower [...]

Once a missionary, always a missionary.
That’s the thought I had while reading Red Hat chairman Matthew Szulik’s recent op-ed piece on improving North Carolina’s economic competitiveness. Szulik, who led Red Hat for over a decade, was known for an almost evangelical zeal for open source.
I found it inspirational; Red Hat competitors found it unsettling.
Red Hat [...]