| Red Hat, Oracle, Sun, others join to pitch open source to feds
More than 50 companies, academic institutions, and other organizations, including vendors such as Red Hat and Oracle, are banding together to promote use of open source by the federal government via an organization called Open Source for America. Group will push open source in US gov't
Open-source software needs a higher profile in Washington, D.C., according to a group of about 50 organizations and companies that launched a new campaign to educate U.S. government agencies about the benefits of open source. Mozilla denies new Firefox bug is security risk
Mozilla is denying that a bug that crashes Firefox 3.5 is a security flaw, countering earlier reports that the company's latest browser contained a vulnerability, even though it had just been patched. Kazaa launches payment model
Kazaa, once a peer-to-peer file sharing site at the centre of many copyright lawsuits, has officially been re-launched as a legal subscription music service. Microsoft makes second GPLv2 release in as many days
Microsoft has made its second release under the General Public License in two days with software for the open-source online learning system Moodle. July Giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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