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No Fair Deal: delay to Copyright Law Review due to TPP 21 Jul 2013 | 01:48 pm
As members of the Fair Deal NZ coalition (led by InternetNZ's Susan Chalmers) and the global Our Fair Deal, also led by the NZ-based coalition, the NZOSS is keen to get this message out. Please alert ...
2013 AGM - Monday 19 August 17:30 16 Jul 2013 | 01:42 pm
The 2013 NZOSS Annual General Meeting will be on Monday 19 August starting at 17:30. We will "meet" online via IRC (Internet Relay Chat - there are free IRC clients for every platform) in the #nzoss ...
Linux continues to dominate High Performance Computing 20 Jun 2013 | 02:34 am
The recently released Top500 global supercomputers list shows that the free and open source operating system, Linux, has easily dominated the field and is indisputably the highest performance operatin...
Treshna 21 May 2013 | 08:00 am
Treshna enterprises has been developing opensource projects since the late 90's. We have developed and supported a lot of open source projects over the year, and have made a successful consultany bu...
Patents Bill SOP237 signals end to software patents in NZ 9 May 2013 | 02:58 pm
Commerce Minister Craig Foss' SOP237 - announced today - demonstrates the government's commitment to ending software patents in NZ. The membership of the NZOSS and the significant majority of software...
Software Patent Exclusion to Stay 9 May 2013 | 02:55 pm
The Patent Bill currently before Parliament will implement the intent of the Commerce Select Committee by excluding software from patentable inventions. Craig Foss is reported to say "These changes en...
Ratification of ESRI restful web service as an open standard 9 May 2013 | 12:26 pm
In the global GIS, spatial data & web mapping arena ESRI plays a similar role as the dominant global player to Microsoft, but as with all analogies, don't treat this as 100% gospel. There are many pla...
Pat Pilcher on Software Patents 17 Feb 2013 | 01:03 am
Pat Pilcher of the NZ Herald writes on software patents The hope held out by many was that software would be excluded from being covered by patents, however it now appears that the government is like...
2012 NZ Open Source Awards 9 Nov 2012 | 08:39 am
The NZOSS was very pleased to be a part, as a community supporter, of the NZ Open Source Awards which took place this past Wednesday night in Wellington. The event was superbly organised and run by th...
No Software Patents Petition 4 Sep 2012 | 04:48 am
Last week's announcement that Commerce Minister Craig Foss had submitted a Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) to alter the wording of the Patents Bill prior to its second reading in Parliament rightly ra...
