(Le guide militaire de 68 pages fournit “meilleurs pratiques” et autres ressources pour aider les développeurs à créer des logiciels utilisant des technologies ouvertes) The military’s 68-page guide provides best practices and other resources to to help developers create software using open technologies.

(La réglementation des marchés publics européens devrait être améliorée pour permettre un meilleur accès aux applications logicielles libres et open source) Europe’s rules on public procurement should be improved to allow better access to free and open source software applications, according to advocacy groups and the OSOR project. They responded to a public consultation by the European Commission. The groups want the rules to request free and open source licencing terms.

(l’april poursuit sa campagne contre les appels d’offres discriminatoires avec de nouvelles informations et des ressources de sensibilisation) The French advocacy organisation for free sofware and open standards April continues its campaign against discriminatory calls for tenders with new information and awareness-raising resources.

New procurement policy guidance from the UK government has defined open standards as having “intellectual property made irrevocably available on a royalty free basis”

(Les administrations publiques Françaises et les marchés publics) French public administrations will be educated on how to properly procure IT solutions. April, a French association promoting free and open source software, and the National Council of Free Software (CNLL), a group representing French providers of free and open source software services, last Thursday announced a campaign to raise awareness on illegal IT procurement.

(Un test de dernière minute révèle nombre de problèmes avec un système de vote en ligne, pourtant basé sur du Logiciel Libre) Security remains an obstacle to voting over the Internet. But more states may be tempted to experiment in order to comply with a new law concerning the rights of military and overseas voters.

(Un plan Britannique pour réduire les coûts en passant par les petites entreprises et le logiciel libre) The UK government’s deputy CIO has outlined plans to hand public sector IT contracts over to small businesses (…)

The war against persistent zombie cookies—cookies that never seem to lose your data, even when you delete them—rages on, as users learn more about the technology. While awareness is rising thanks to widespread coverage of Flash cookies and, more recently, HTML5’s storage capabilities, we have a long way to go before Internet users can avoid persistent tracking. Like all zombie wars, this one will take some time to win; and if you thought things were bad now, they’re about to get worse.

(L’activiste Richard Stallman fait une apparition impromptue lors d’une présentation du Bureau des Brevets Européen à Brisbane) Software freedom activist Richard Stallman made an unexpected appearance at a European Patent Office presentation in Brisbane today.

Brett Smith, l’un des piliers de la Free Software Foundation, a posté sur le blog officiel de l’association Open Source un billet pour soutenir Google dans la bataille juridique qui l’oppose à Oracle depuis cet été.

(Victoire majeure dans une cour Américaine) Open sourcers have scored a major victory in a US court over violation of the GPL.

(La majorité des projets hébergés par Google sont sous GPL3) Google’s open source programs manager Chris DiBona (pic left) took the stage at OSCON today and he had some interesting things to say, about licensing.