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The Open Road: "The interesting thing was that while the CTOs looked to open source as an inexpensive means of discovering and evaluating software, all seemed to believe that adding proprietary services or software was the right way to monetize it."

openSUSE News: "So the polls are closed now and all votes have been accounted for and confirmed valid, and we are now proud to announce the election results!

The openSUSE project would like to welcome the first community elected board, and would like to thank all voters for taking the time to use their vote."

Election season is here, but not everyone knows where to vote just yet. Google hopes to make finding that information a little easier, and has launched a site and an embeddable web gadget that allows US voters to get all the voting information they need before November 4.

Technology Review: "California's secretary of state says open-source software is needed to safeguard electronic voting systems."

IT Wire: "4. Vista has the most advanced and widest range of security software available."

Standards Blog: "The inclusion of two questions in the ballot is (to me, at least) rather curious, in that each asks the same question in a different way, but with a "yes" vote having the opposite import."

In the new Google Search Interface each comment has an up or down vote feature as well, and Google is using thumbs up and down icons that are exactly the same as those on Digg.

The comments show the username of the person leaving it, and clicking on it shows their Google account profile.

ConsortiumInfo: "With fewer than 48 hours to go throughout most of the world, only a small percentage of the 87 countries that voted last summer on OOXML have announced whether they will stand by, or change, the votes that they cast during the original six month voting period..."

Open Source India: "I love Microsoft for their sheer willingness to p**s off every human being on this planet in their quest for approval of OOXML..."