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[News] New Initiative in Italy Makes Politicians Obliged to Free Software

Free software in free elections

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| A new initiative promoted by the italian association for free software for 
| the next italian political elections (provided that they will actually take 
| place…). The initiative consists in asking the candidates to sign a letter 
| where they engage themselves, in case they will be elected, to promote the 
| use of free software through their political activity.    
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http://www.palmerini.org/2008/04/06/free-software-in-free-elections/

The Italian parliament is already on GNU/Linux (links below).

Quote for the day:

"I thanked [Compaq's John] Rose for all of his trips to Seattle and his
willingness to distract a lot of time for the lawsuit."

                                --Bill Gates


Recent:

Telecom Italia Rejects Microsoft IPTV

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| For Microsoft, Telecom Italia's decision is clearly a blow. But it has other 
| carrier partners that have deployed its technology in commercial networks, 
| including AT&T Inc.   
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http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=148327


Italy's National Institute of Design and Mint Chooses JBoss Enterprise SOA
Platform

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| IPZS is a joint-stock company with Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance as 
| sole shareholder and is responsible for printing and dissemination of the 
| Italian Official Gazette, government publications, security and 
| anti-counterfeiting systems, fine art publishing and ID documents, including 
| traditional and electronic ID cards, passports and smart cards.    
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080219/20080219005666.html?.v=1


Italian Court Selects Red Hat Solutions for Core IT Applications

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| Corte dei Conti Relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Safeguard Public 
| Finance and Maintain Jurisdictional Order in Italy 
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080115/20080115005158.html?.v=1


Related:

Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance Powers Mission-Critical Applications
with Red Hat Solutions

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| The Ministry selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux for reliability and heightened 
| performance, and 
| is utilizing the solution as the main platform for many of its critical 
| applications, including its "Service Personale Tesoro" (SPT) application,  
| which runs on one of the most popular Italian government websites. 
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http://www.pr-inside.com/italian-ministry-of-economics-and-finance-r351508.htm


Linux Day in Roma.

http://blog.notsecurity.com/index.php/resoconto-linuxday-roma-27102007/2007/10/


Linux reaches the Italian Parliament

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| As reported by the Italian newspaper Repubblica on July 10th, 2007, a plan 
| suggested by the left deputies Pietro Folena and Franco Grillini to migrate 
| all the computers of the Parliament from Windows to Linux was approved by the 
| Chamber.   
| 
| The migration will affect about 3500 boxes of the Chamber, both desktops and 
| servers, and each Deputy/Party may also ask to migrate his/its (private) 
| computers to the Free System.  
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http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/blog/linux-docs/italian-parliament-moves-to-linux/


Itway Reinforced Parnership With US Company Red Hat

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| The Itway group specialising in the sector of information technology and 
| quoted at the Milan stock exchange extended the agreement for the 
| distribution in the whole south of Europe of the Red Hat solutions, one of 
| the main distributors in the world of enterprise solutions. According to a 
| statement, the value of the agreement has been estimated by the Itway 
| management around the figure of 6 million euros on a yearly basis.
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http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200612181747-1198-RT1-CRO-0-NF30&page=0&id=agionline-eng.bnessitaly


Italy adopts OpenDocument as a National Standard

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| Italy has adopted The OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 23600) as a
| national standard. The decision was made by UNI, the Italian
| Organization for Standardization, which is responsible, under
| appointment from the Italian Government and the EU, to develop,
| approve and publish technical standards in all economic sectors
| (industry, trade and services) except for electric and
| electro-technical ones.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/1/29/13965


2006 Italian Linux Day: A nationwide success

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| The 2006 edition of Italian Linux Day on October 28 was the first
| in the six-year history of the event to be celebrated in more than
| 100 cities in every corner of the country.
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http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/01/2048226&from=rss


Linux reaches the Italian Parliament

,----[ Quote ]
| As reported by the Italian newspaper Repubblica on July 10th, 2007, a plan 
| suggested by the left deputies Pietro Folena and Franco Grillini to migrate 
| all the computers of the Parliament from Windows to Linux was approved by the 
| Chamber.   
| 
| The migration will affect about 3500 boxes of the Chamber, both desktops and 
| servers, and each Deputy/Party may also ask to migrate his/its (private) 
| computers to the Free System.  
`----

http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/blog/linux-docs/italian-parliament-moves-to-linux/


Historic victory of the "Associazione per il Software Libero"! [in Italy]

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| WE WON. Therefore 4.5 million Euros of public money will not be spent
| on proprietary software licenses, since the Ministry failed to
| consider free software options.
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http://www.softwarelibero.it/abbiamo_vinto_en

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