"Russian Linux plans are foiled"

Quoting:RUSSIA'S PLANS to run the open sauce operating system Linux have been thwarted by incompetence and the slippery actions of Microsoft.

The former communist state apparently had a cunning plan to use the free operating system in schools to save a ruble or two.

However according to the Russian press the chap in charge of the programme, Alexei Kuzovkin, believes that the program that supplies Linux to schools is in jeopardy.

He said that part of the problem is that the schools are not getting the cash to upgrade. From the beginning of the year funding for the project was pared down three times.

Quoting: What flavor of sauce is Linux anyway?

Quoting:According to Business DK, the Rødovre municipality has kept its move to OpenOffice under wraps, fearing criticism from Microsoft. According to the news site, the company is trying to get fired a colleague of Roark in the municipality Lyngby-Taarbaek, Jens Kjellerup.

Lyngby-Taarbaek announced last month it is moving all of its schools desktops to OpenOffice. The municipality also plans to replace Microsoft's office tools by OpenOffice on all PCs used by the administration in March next year.

Microsoft in a public letter to the Mayor and citizens of Lyngby-Taarbaek on 2 November claims the move to OpenOffice makes the use of office tools more cumbersome for teachers, students and parents.

Quoting: the old comparing software to a book metaphor.