Category Archives: FOSS

Free and Open Source Software, policies, applications

Russian Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications talks about Cyrillic Domain Names

Posted on October 25, 2008 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

Igor Schegolev, the Russian Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications spoke at the opening of the InfoCom 2008 exhibition in Moscow. Among other things, which made news (for example, that the Russian government will be implementing a free and open … Continue reading →

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Congratulations: Dessi got married!

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

My colleague and a very good person, Dessi as of August 29 is Mrs. Greve. She married another colleague and a very good person, George Greve. Dessi is a project coordinator with ISOC-Bulgaria, and has performed to the highest marks … Continue reading →

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Мicrosoft to introduce open document format?

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

Microsoft has published a press-release, announcing they will provide MS Office users with the option of saving documents in open document format (ODF): With the release of Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) scheduled for the first half of … Continue reading →

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How the Netherlands did it. It = open standards

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

Here it is how: As you may have heard ([1], [2]), the Dutch government has recently attracted Microsoft’s anger by launching an actionplan to adopt open standards, and concretely OpenDocument Format by April 2008 in the national government. Open Standards … Continue reading →

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And Let The Best Microsoft win…

Posted on November 10, 2007 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

This is the headline of an article, published in last “Capital” weekly (see the article in full below). The problem is that the Bulgarian Ministry of State Administration has issued a public bid for licensing 60,000 copies of MS Windows … Continue reading →

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560,000 German Students to use Linux

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

As cnet’s news.com announces, North Rhine-Westphalia has selected Novell for the supply of its IT infrastructure. Novell already supports 300,000 students in the states of Bavaria and Thuringia; the new deal will add another 560,000 students and thousands of employees.(…) … Continue reading →

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Microsoft: Open Source is breaking our patents!

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

In an article for the Fortune magazine, Microsoft says that free and open source software violates more than 200 of Microsoft’s patents. Microsoft’s chief counsel and VP Brad Smith is quoted as saying that the Linux kernel – the deepest … Continue reading →

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Interesting Study on Economic Impact of Open Source Software

Posted on January 11, 2007 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the ICT sector the EU – it was published today at the European Commission web site. You can download and read this quite useful report, 287 pages, prepared … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons turns four on Dec. 16

Posted on December 15, 2006 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

Creative Commons turns four on Dec. 16th. As Larry Lessig says, “on December 16, 2002, in San Francisco, we launched this licensing project. Within a year, there were a million licenses. Within two years, 12m. Within three years, around 40m. … Continue reading →

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Bill Gates on Free Software

Posted on November 17, 2006 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

In an interview for News.com, Bill Gates speaks about Free Software and Stallman. I think it’s worth reading it, esp. that Mr. Gates does not answer to the main question – about the open source. It’s worth mentioning also that … Continue reading →

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