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• Andre

  2009-02-04 14:53:13

  If Lorenzo is concerned about an alleged malpractice he can file a complaint as can do competitors:
  
  http://ec.europa.eu/competition/publications/competition_policy_and_the_citizen/consumer_liaison/index_it.html
  
  The issuing of parliament questions is also available to him and probably his preferred path. The party is certainly special in its radical libertarian beliefs concerning secularism, anti-trade union and it does very high quality work inside the ALDE group of parliament, in particular in the fields of rights of sexual orientation, public transparency, human rights and ICT. Its old charismatic leader is a fighter against the death penalty. What makes his group special is that it is so productive to make a difference and well informed about ICT issues.
  
  Here is the source: http://www.radicalparty.org/welcome2.html
  
  Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Radicals http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/488720/Radical-Party
  
  And if you ever heard of the famous Turco judgement of the ECJ, Turco is a member of that member. And see how also Cappato pressured for better public access to EU documents with his last month report:
  
  http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2009-0022
  
  Have also a look at Cappato's attempt to get access to EU framework contracts with Microsoft: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/11/1937223

• Andre

  2009-02-04 14:54:28

  Turco is a member of that member. --> Turco is a member of that party.

• Mike

  2009-02-04 19:30:32

  Here is a recent example of what may have been a deliberate attempt to sabotage Linux using the BIOS:
  
  http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2008072502235RVMS
  
  "Foxconn Deliberately Sabotaging Their BIOS to Destroy Linux ACPI"
  
  The article refers to this post:
  
  http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249
  
  A week after the problem was publicized, Foxconn released a fix:
  
  http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/08/02/1552226.shtml
  
  I recall a while back (a couple of years?) that AMD had a problem with accessing memory, that would cause Linux to crash. AMD had a fix, but they didn't reveal it until Linux developers discovered the problem for themselves. Windows wasn't having the problem, which suggests that Microsoft already had the fix. It could have just been a bureaucratic oversight on AMD's part, that allowed their reputation to take a hit, but, on the other hand, AMD is dependent on Microsoft for their survival these days.
  
  This also reminds me of the early nineties, when Microsoft introduced code into Windows to deliberately sabotage DR-DOS. The evidence was eventually brought out in court, but by then it was far too late. As always, the Justice Department ignored Microsoft's criminal activity, and Microsoft only had to face a civil lawsuit.
  
  These days, of course, Microsoft doesn't do their own dirty work, which is why Linux gets attacked or sabotaged by companies like SCO, and Novell (and possibly Foxconn, and AMD).

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-02-04 19:41:52

  Mike,
  
  We have many of the documents about this. Could use help in the Wiki... http://boycottnovell.com/wiki/index.php?title=DOS