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Oh Canada!
Green Party OKs FOSS in platform

gp canada Thanks to a founding member of Free Geek Vancouver, the Green Party of Canada has quietly become the first major political party in Canada to make support for FOSS part of its election platform. Like officials in the Green Party of England and Wales, deputy leader Adriane Carr sees the move as compatible with basic Green ideas, but IT consultant Neil Adair also points out the move serves the practical purpose of helping the party match the technical resources of more established parties. More on the story from Linux.com here.

Only 10?
List of reasons to dump Windows

We were under the impression -- and we still swear to it -- that there are more than only 10, but the 10 reasons that Microsoft wants you to drink the Kool-Aid and use Vista are the 10 reasons that you should probably avoid it. As if it were plutonium. More on the story from the Good Computing Blog here.

California school district
moves toward GNU/Linux

Windsor, Calif., is making wholesale changes in her employer's IT system by migrating most of 5,000 Windows desktops to a new setup based primarily on GNU/Linux-powered desktop PCs and thin clients. The change aims to reduce annual costs, offer many more applications, and use less energy. Heather Carver, the Windsor school district technology director, is migrating most of the district's 70 servers and most of its 5,000 desktop machines from a mostly-Windows environment that is quickly becoming obsolete to a new mixed environment that includes PCs running SUSE Linux, Wyse Linux thin-client terminals, and a smattering of Mac and Windows machines. More on the story from Desktop Linux here.

Sombrero Rojo sets up in Mexico

Red Hat announced that it has launched its direct operations with an office in Mexico City. The opening of the Mexico offices contributes to the Red Hat's growth potential in Latin America, joining offices in already established in Brazil and Argentina. "The new Red Hat offices in Mexico, together with the offices of Brazil and Argentina, prove our commitment to a continued global expansion in international markets," said Gabriel Szulik, Red Hat's general manager for Latin America. More on the story from Carolina Newswire here.

Viva Cuba Libre Software!

The Cuban government plans to migrate thousands of its computers to open-source software, a change that would further distance the communist nation from Microsoft. In Communications Minister Ramiro Valdes opening keynote at a recent conference, the Cuban cabinet member said that the island nation advocated open source. The story from C|net is here.

In North America? Write about Free Sofware/Open Source Software?

OSR invites writers in North America -- from Panama north to Canada -- to submit stories about free software/open source software news and developments for publication. Contact us here.