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Formerly part of Yugoslavia and previously better known as a potential ethnic trouble spot, Macedonia is now rapidly becoming a wi-fi hotspot.

Open source code, written by a community of thousands of software developers, has always been made freely available. But there are ways of making money from it...

Nearly half of European local government bodies are using open source software while nearly a third don't know that they are using open source at all.

Introduction This is the main Web site for the Open Source Academy, its aim is to encourage the use of Open Source software by local authorities throughout the United Kingdom. In addition, this server will be used to host pages for a similar initiative aimed at SME's across the EU.

Warning. If you read any further, you will find yourself at ground 0.0 of the biggest battle the computer industry has ever seen. It is where the biggest warriors from the proprietary software world, the open standards world, and the open source world are engaged in hand-to-hand combat. At least for the moment, the open source and open standards worlds (the Rebel Alliance) appear to have joined sides against the proprietary warlords, led by Microsoft.

Recently a reader took offense at a comment I made when I suggested that a well-defended trademark could help win Linux "a seat at the grown-ups' table." "What makes a commercial product inherently more 'grown-up' than its open source counterpart?" the reader asked.

Microsoft's new Chinese internet portal has banned the words "democracy" and "freedom" from parts of its website in an apparent effort to avoid offending Beijing's political censors. [Note from Dave: it's a slow news day so here's something to read. Better than nothing, I say!]

Becta, the Government's lead agency for ICT in education, is set to release a new report which will say that schools could save significant sums by switching to open source software, eGov monitor can report.

Microsoft says it is clamping down on people running pirated versions of its Windows operating system by restricting their access to security features.

"Two longtime rivals, Oracle and Microsoft, announced a partnership yesterday intended to help Oracle's databases work better with Microsoft's Windows operating system."

Europe plans direct patentability of computer programs, data structures and process descriptions.