On Open Source, Security, and Government Consideration, Feb 19, 2009

President Obama’s Administration is being encouraged to embrace open source software, copying a similar UK government game plan.

In a bid to help customers improve efficiency, IBM and Red Hat have declared that developers at the companies' Linux labs have joined forces to integrate new technologies in the Linux kernel.

President Hugo Chavez has long been critical of big transnational companies, and now his government is promoting free open-source software as an alternative to market-dominating Microsoft Corp