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EC Dumps Open Source Conference

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 17, 2003 @05:51PM from the shallow-pockets dept.

jaruz writes "MERIT is no longer organising the conference on the topic of Open Standards and Libre Software in Government at UNESCO Paris, November 24-26, 2003. Until now, MERIT was responsible for the logistics and through the FLOSSPOLS project, EC funding for the conference. This is now wholly withdrawn. They 'have taken this decision in consultation with the European Commission, whose support for this conference was earlier being provided through the proposed FLOSSPOLS project at MERIT.'"

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Huh? by tsa · 2003-10-17 18:02 · Score: 3, Insightful

Maybe it's good to check the links first before putting a story on /.. I could not find anything about the EC dumping this when I followed the link. I would expect it to be on the MERIT website! Therefore as far as I'm concerned this is an unconfirmed rumour and thus no news.

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Where from? by yanestra · 2003-10-17 18:08 · Score: 2, Insightful

Where is this information from?