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  1. Online Plagiarist Sues University

    Humor · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the now-that's-one-way-to-approach-things dept. · 693 comments
    raistphrk writes "The Reg reports that an English student at the University of Kent has sued the university after the university caught him ripping his papers off the Internet and kicked him out of the English program. I guess the stakes are now being raised for universities that use services to check for plagiarized papers."

  2. UK Gov't Considers Expanding Open Source Use

    News · Gnu · · posted by timothy · from the did-you-say-free-old-boy dept. · 213 comments
    IonPanel writes "BBC have a story about the use of open source software at the heart of British government policy. The UK government is now running trials at both government and local level, citing the world-wide effort of a community of programmers fixing bugs and free upgrades as the reason. And all this despite the good friendship between Bill Gates and Tony Blair. There will be quite a few worried faces at Microsoft over the next few months ... Lets hope it's another Munich!" The experiments -- a joint effort with IBM, run by the Office of the E-envoy -- will "cover a range of departments, from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to the e-envoy's office itself."