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Submission + - UK Conservatives to Make Government Open Source

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 12, 2007 @02:58PM

An anonymous reader writes: George Osborne, Shadow Chancellor of the UK Conservative Party, has suggested switching towards an Open Source powered government in favour of Microsoft.

Submission + - Main UK opposition party talking OSS

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twofish

on Monday March 12, 2007 @02:38PM

twofish writes: "The user of open source software in European government got another boost recently when shadow Chancellor George Osborne told the Royal Society of Arts he wanted to create a level playing field for open source software in the UK. He has estimated that the British government could save more than £600 million a year if it used more open source software, according to this short article on the BBC website."

Piracy Forced id's Hand To Multiplatform Gaming 224

Posted by Zonk on Monday March 12, 2007 @02:07PM from the quit-stealing-their-stuff dept.

CVG is reporting on comments from a GDC talk last week by id CEO Todd Hollenshead on the necessity of multiplatform development. Essentially, said Hollenshead, id was forced to start developing for consoles because of the rampant piracy of PC games. "Enemy Territory: Quake Wars was given as an example of id's multiplatform direction. Originally in development for PC at the hands of Splash Damage and id Software, the multiplayer-focussed action game is now additionally heading to Xbox 360 and PS3."

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