Linux has gained some ground this week, but not according to MS. A recent ZDNet article found here says that the Austrailian government, at least an official, has backed Linux. Then in another ZDNet article the Korean Postal Service hopes to save several million pounds by switching to Linux. But in a TechNewsWorld article Microsoft themselves report that Microsoft has gained ground against Linux in China. Ya, like we are supposed to believe that. I guess we should then believe it's better to line a billionaires pocket for an inferior product than donate a few pounds for costs to volunteers making a better one.

On a lesser note, the GPL (General Public Licence) is begining the process of being updated. Knowning a little about the people involved, I'm sure the new version will be easily accepted by all in the FOSS community. The other thing is that Sun is dropping the SISSL in favour of the LGPL. This affects most of us not in the slightest, but now developers of OpenOffice also keep a copyright to the code. A major improvement as before they had to sign it over to Sun. Congrats to Sun, also the Major contributor to OOo. TAFN...