The Ministry of Economic Development breifing fails to give a draft text of ACTA, or even define New Zealand's negotiating position:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/9B4A33AC48022F9BCC25768D0082657C
Vendor group NZICT delivers a strategy that closely aligns with government priorities, but not entirely with the NZ ICT industry:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/3162343/NZICT-priorities-earn-praise
French ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Nexedi bids to take over the MySQL database from Sun Microsystems for a beer token:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091214/tc_pcworld/erpvendorofferstotakeovermysql
The Software Freedom Law Centre sues 15 companies - some well-known brands - over GPL violations related to BusyBox:
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2009/dec/14/busybox-gpl-lawsuit/
US Government considering a bill to fund Open Source textbooks:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-1714
And finally. The Japanese Sogo & Seibu department store is offering customised robots that look like their owners. For US$225,000:
http://www.physorg.com/news180018368.html#top
Vik :v) Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. http://diamondage.co.nz
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