REP. Teodoro Casiño is expected to file a bill this week mandating the use of free and open source software and open standards in all government projects.

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FROM zero to 200 million downloads. That’s the record that the Firefox browser has achieved since Version 1 was introduced in November 2004.

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Last February, I listed a couple of useful extensions, including Fasterfox, which speeds up the retrieval of Web pages. Here are a few other favorites that I’ve added since then:

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In a paper delivered at an academic forum Thursday, Emmanuel Lallana, a commissioner of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology said efforts to promote free and open source software in education have focused on three aspects: 1) getting more people to use it; 2) developing content and electronic learning applications using the technology; and 3) developing experts who can support its wider use.

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SHIFTING to the Linux operating system can be pretty daunting for long-time Windows users who have grown accustomed to doing things a certain way.

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Leave it to Bill Gates. There’s a reason he’s the richest man in the world. The software isn’t great, but it’s good enough to do the job. Unfortunately, the “job” isn’t just personal productivity, it’s technology lock-in. It’s all about creating a new generation of computer users who are hooked on Windows and programs that run under the proprietary operating system.

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