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Green Party Urges EU To Go Open-source
News Members of the European Parliament representing the Green Party and the European Free Alliance (EFA) believe that Europe's software industry would get a substantial boost if the EU and the European Parliament migrated their IT systems onto free...
[September 16, 2003, 18:25]
Green Party Urges EU To Go Open-source
Talkback SO, Bruce McCabe, a veteran IT researcher and managing director of Australia-based research firm S2 Intelligence.asks: "Why should open-source software get preferential treatment in government? I would suggest that if he can't answer his own...
[September 23, 2003, 12:21]
Green Party Urges EU To Go Open-source
Talkback If they aren't happy, another party (or parties) can be engaged to continue the work, instead of being tied to the current vendor. For example, if government is unhappy with the security of their software and believes that the party producing it...
[September 17, 2003, 4:40]
Microsoft Defends Vista's Environmental Impact
News Microsoft has responded to claims from the Green Party and the British Computer Society that its new Vista operating system will force older PCs to be dumped. The Green Party issued a press release on Monday claiming that consumers who move to...
[January 31, 2007, 9:00]
'Deceptive' Patent Lobbying Sparks Calls For Transparency
News The Green Party has called for greater transparency in political lobbying following the tactics of some campaign groups during the debating of the software patent directive. Campaign for Creativity did not respond to a request for comment on the...
[July 11, 2005, 14:15]
A Year Ago: Europe Weighs Echelon Threat
News European Green Party members request inquiry into surveillance danger According to a spokesman for Alima Boumediene-Thiery, French deputy for the Green Party, Greens in Parliament have already collected enough signatures from deputies to convene a...
[March 23, 2001, 6:01]
Greens: Vista Means More Dead PCs
News The Green Party has claimed that Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista, could lead to a mass upgrade of PCs that will result in old machines being dumped in landfill sites. Speaking ahead of the official UK consumer launch of Vista on Tuesday...
[January 29, 2007, 16:27]
Election 2001: Labour Trails Web Site Poll
News According to performance testing from software testers SIM Group, the Natural Law and Green Party Web sites only took between two to nine seconds to download compared to 58 seconds for Labour. For a party who is dedicated to promoting online...
[June 7, 2001, 16:28]
PC World Plans 'green' Vista PC
News A spokesman for the Green Party suggested on Tuesday that the choice of Vista for a a so-called green machine could be a mistake, and called on retailers to offer more PCs without Windows pre-installed.
[February 21, 2007, 9:22]
Munich Linux Migration Delayed By 'PR Stunt'
News Mueller, along with a few others, came up with the idea of the Green Party drafting written questions to the mayor of Munich, to ask about software patents and their impact on the Munich's Linux migration project, known as LiMux.
[March 29, 2006, 11:05]
The Green Myste
Downloads You will meet up with various adventurers whom you may invite to join you, adding to the skill set and power of your party - all of which will be helpful as you battle hundreds of monsters and defeat countless tricks and traps spread throughout...
[August 11, 2005, 17:13]
Pro-patent Lobby In Sticky Situation Over Ice-cream Offer
News Laurence Vandewalle, an adviser for the European Green Party, said the C4C's latest campaign was weak and unoriginal. She claimed that the Green Party and anti-patent advocates have often done informal campaigns, including offering food at a demo...
[June 6, 2005, 16:50]
'Carbon Neutral' PC Uses More Wood, Fewer Watts
News When the PC World project was first announced, a spokesman for the Green Party suggested the choice of Vista for a so-called green machine could be a mistake, and called on retailers to offer more PCs without Windows pre-installed.
[July 20, 2007, 17:31]
Sun Wants Java To Share More
News Alongside the NetBeans revamp, Sun is looking at measures to improve the interoperability of code and third-party plug-in tools in different Java programming applications. At the moment, there are different systems for mixing and matching third...
[December 5, 2003, 10:30]
How The Democrats' Win Affects Tech
News Long-time Washington observers acknowledge that neither party is that principled when it comes to electronic surveillance. Rather, positions on privacy can become partisan methods of attacking the party that holds the White House.
[November 10, 2006, 10:20]
Dutch MPs Fight Microsoft Deal
News This decision, initially proposed in a motion by Green Party MP Kees Vendrik, was unanimously passed by the Dutch parliament in 2002. The Dutch government is a coalition between three parties -- the Christian Democrats, the People's Party for...
[December 13, 2004, 13:50]
'Green' IT: A Feasible Proposition?
News The company currently purchases its energy from a third party that uses only renewable resources, and by the end of next year it plans to open a small data centre powered entirely by electricity generated from its own solar panels.
[September 27, 2004, 17:05]
Microsoft Goes On Green Vista Offensive
News In January, the Green Party criticised Vista for requiring "more expensive and energy-hungry hardware, passing the cost on to consumers and the environment. Microsoft claims that this is an improvement on the standby mode in XP, which could be...
[March 22, 2007, 13:17]
Roundup: Full Coverage Of The Vista Launch
News But while Microsoft won plenty of headlines around the world with the launch, it has also been condemned by the Green Party, which predicts a mass dumping of old PCs as people find they need new hardware to run Vista.
[January 31, 2007, 11:10]
Should The EU Refuse To Buy Microsoft?
Blog A Green Party member of the European Parliament has formally requested that Microsoft be excluded from EU public procurements, because it is in breach of EU competition law. It's been suggested often, but this is a formal application from a Euro-MP...
[April 14, 2008, 12:10]
