EU to probe Microsoft's ISO claim over Office software file format

BRUSSELS, Feb. 8, 2008 (Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) -- European regulators are examining whether Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Corp violated antitrust laws during a struggle last year to ratify its Office software file format as an international standard, the Wall Street Journal reported.

more at cnn.com

Australian open source workers earn more money

Interesting article about how IT open source professionals in Australia earn more than regular IT people, I would say the answer is quiet easy, open source people are better professionals :)

IT workers who specialise in free and open source software are earning more than the national average for IT, according to the results of Australia's first open source census.

more at itnews.com.au

23,000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in Philippines

Providing high school students with PCs is seen as a first step to
preparing them for a technology-literate future, but in the Philippines
many schools cannot afford to provide computing facilities so after a
successful deployment of 13,000 Fedora Linux systems from a government
grant, plans are underway to roll out another 10,000 based on Ubuntu.

read the story at computerworld.com.au

EUPL released under 22 languages of EU

EUPL, European Union Public Licence is a Open Source like licence, developed by the European Commission for usage in the public sector of member states.

Why Open Source like? Well, by the meaning it is open source but it wasn't approved by Open Source Initiative in US, actually no one even submitted it.

You can reach the licence in 22 languages here.