In the latest stimulus bill passed by the senate hides a big win for Open Source companies like Novell and RedHat.
On page 488 the topic reads:
Study and Reports on Availability of Open Source Health Information Technology Systems
This bill is saying:
The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall, in consultation with the Under Secretary for Health of the Vetrans Health Administration, the Directory of the Indian [ continue reading... ]
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Stimulus Adds Study for Open Source Healthcare Systems
$15,000 credit effective dropped switched to $8,000 no payback
Today the projected stimulus bill went through another round of deliberation and trimming to hit a goal of $800> Billion.
It was met with the biggest cut coming from the Senate proposed $15,000 tax credit. However, it is not proposed that the $7,500 credit no longer has to be paid back.
What are my thoughts? I think they did some things right, and something wrongs.
I believe the [ continue reading... ]
$7,500 Housing Stimulus Interest Free Loan
Think of the $7,500 stimulus as an interest free loan. The concept of the $7,500 loan (which must be repaid over 15 years at $500 / year after 2 years of claiming the credit) is quite a bit easier to grasp then the recently approved $15,000 tax credit which is going around. You can read about here. I believe the best and clearest explination of [ continue reading... ]
Stimulus passes crucial Senate test votes
Here is an excerpt from a Yahoo article regarding the crucial Senate test vote passing of the stimulus bill backed by the white house. Link to the full article is at the bottom.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An $838 billion economic stimulus bill backed by the White House survived a key test vote in the Senate on Monday despite strong Republican opposition, and Democratic leaders vowed to [ continue reading... ]
Major PS3 Outage - Sony Playstation 3 PSN Network Down
openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 112 is out!
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