News stories about Linux and Open Source in government and legislation about Open Source.

 UK Govt screws browser choice, Sep 09, 2008

A firestorm is brewing over proposals issued by the UK's IT advisory body over which browsers the public sector should support. Taxpayers will be forced to change their browsing habits and computer setup to accommodate the guidelines, say web standards experts.

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The Australian Taxation Office has advised Australians using Apple or Linux operating systems that they will be unable to lodge tax returns electronically using the ATO's e-tax software unless they use a Windows emulator or a kiosk in one of the agency's shop fronts.

In a setback for the City of Vienna's three-year-old open-source migration programme, city authorities decided on Wednesday to scrap most of the systems that have so far adopted the city's custom-built Linux distribution, instead approving an €8m migration to Windows Vista.

Casey Coleman, the chief information officer of the General Services Administration, spoke at a Federal Open Source Alliance Web seminar held earlier today.

The Brazilian Electoral Supreme Court announced last Friday that Brazil's 2008 elections will use 430,000 electronic voting machines running GNU/Linux and open sauce voting applications.

In multiple media reports over the past two weeks, the US Army has professed its love for the penguin. The Army eventually intends to move from a Windows-based infrastructure over to Linux for its new, roughly $200bn weapons program.

Trusted Computer Solutions has upgraded its Security Blanket security compliance software so that it can make Red Hat Enterprise Linux compliant with the settings defined in the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Security Technical Implementation Guide for that operating system.

What happens when the U.S. Army, whose Blue-Force Tracking system runs on Microsoft software, starts introducing the Future Combat Systems (FCS) vehicles that use the Linux operating system?

France's gendarmerie has apparently taken quite a liking to such open source software as Firefox and OpenOffice. Now, there are plans to migrate 70,000 workstations in the country's largest administrative complex to Linux according to a report in the French daily L'Express

Agencies expect to increase open source use, vendor support remains a concern

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