Discussion of Country/Community approaches to Open Source
Should countries (including Australia) support a strong, remote, impersonal multinational corporate culture? ... NO ...  There is a need to nurture a culture that develops and supports a national/regional focus on government and business needs, and this requires the acceptance of the open-source concept.
Muli currently incorporates these concepts into our development  that Muli has access to source code for all core dependency software and are prepared to make the development environment available to like minded developers.

• UK Government body says developing countries need open source - http://www.iprcommission.org/graphic/documents/final_report.htm

 In this report, called "Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development  Policy", the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights encourages developing coutries to take a stand against unfair copyright measures affecting online media, and against software pricing that puts products beyond the reach of many citizens.
"Developing countries and their donor partners should carefully evaluate the costs and benefits of using low-cost and/or open-source software products".
• Peruvian Activism - A paper written by Senator Juan Alberto Gonzalez
• in response to Microsofts attempts to block proposed Free Software in Public Administration Bill.   http://pimientolinux.com/peru2ms/villanueva_to_ms.html
• For background information to the above letter see http://pimientolinux.com/peru2ms/
• Free Software in Brazil - a view by Jon "maddog" Hall            http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6256

Project Management / Construction Links

• International Alliance fro Interoperability (IAI)   http://www.iai-internation.org
• BLIS - Implementation sub-group of IAI   http://www.blis-project.org

Open Source Linux discussion

• Blueprint for linux in the enterprise   -  http://www.metasource.us/linux.pdf
• Two detailed articles comparing Microsoft / Linux costing
• Linux vs Microsoft - Total cost of ownership comparison - http://www.linuxtoday.com.au/r/article/jsp/sid/454490
• Linux vs Microsoft - The bottom line - http://www.cyber.com.au/cyber/about/linux_vs_windows_pricing_comparison.pdf

Open Source Products and Solutions

• TCL/TK (Principal Muli Development Tool)  http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/
• OpenOffice (Muli included word processor etc.) http://www.openoffice.org
• StarOffice (corporated supported WP package, same image as OpenOffice) http://www.staroffice.com
• Printing White Paper - Survey of Printing Technology  http://printing.sourceforge.net/white-paper.php
• SAMBA - The Autralian developed ...
• RSync - http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
• Helix community.org  - Develpment of Digital Media Applications - http://www.helixcommunity.org/