Jem Matzan has written a detailed < http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/293/ overview > of the ongoing struggle to provide support for network hardware with proprietary firmware in open source operating systems.

Critics of the One Laptop Per Child Program < http://hardware.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/12/01/1546208&from=rss claim > that the $130 laptops are really $970 after adding in the cost of maintenance and training. This dubious cost < http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/price/the_real_cost_of_the.html analysis > was performed by OLPC News, an independent OLPC blog that has recently been < http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=252 accused > of potential anti-OLPC astroturfing by OLPC developer Christopher Blizzard.

The French government < http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=7508&pagtype=all plans > to create an open source advocacy center in Paris in order to promote open source software development in private industry.