The industry is concerned that the Government’s proposed emissions trading scheme makes no provision for emissions from the more than $60billion of proposed new natural gas projects, putting that investment in doubt, even though gas usually replaces far dirtier fossil fuels in the countries to which it is exported.

Microsoft has submitted a substantial PHP patch to the community under a Lesser GPL license, and is also becoming a platinum member of the Apache Software Foundation, paying the $100,000 annual membership fee. The latter move follows work between the two organisations to support the Office Open XML file formats in Apache’s POI project.