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Welcome to Open Source Academy. Our aim was to encourage the use of Open Source Software by local authorities through knowledge sharing and practical advice. The content of our portal, as well as our one-to-one services, can help you economise on costs and increase Open Source's implementation efficiency.
The OSA project ran from May 2005 and completed March 2006. Since then we have maintained the site because of the high level of interest.
We are unable to continue providing the resources needed to update and have therefore frozen all activity on this site.
For more information on the latest Open Source/Standards isues please link to the Open Forum Europe website.
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The Free Software Foundation released the final draft of an updated General Public License on Thursday, a draft that prohibits future deals similar to the Microsoft-Novell patent pact but lets that one go ahead.
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