Munich's IT department in late December posted an update on the city's migration to a complete open source-based desktop system. It wrote that on 12 December it had migrated 9,000 systems over to Linux, five hundred more than expected. Nearly all copies of a proprietary office suites are uninstalled
This is not a bad article but I wonder if there's an editorial policy against mentioning GNU and software freedom when I read articles talking about the benefits of software freedom and gnu/linux without seeing those words.
>The Open Source crowd is starting to understand the problem. Cori Doctorow sees the copyright battle as a prelude to the war on general purpose computing, transcript here, but sadly sees the language of the FSF as tedious.
VMware. I'm not sure they will dump Windows or just move it all to one place where it can be watched more carefully but the company seems to have finally learned that XP is not a good system to have in an automatic bank.
This is an inspiring story about how a team of talented immigrants at a small company in Montreal tweaked Linux/Android to satisfy what others considered an impossibly low price requirement and win a contract that will grow to 100 million units.
Denver police say they were called to the hotel as fights broke out among frustrated guests. Local KUSA-TV some revellers got sick in the hallways and the elevators were not working at the Denver Tech Center Marriott.
Microsoft is a safe bet for blame when a major Microsoft partner is involved and none of the stories mention software by name.
The girl has been in jail for a year.
Inspection work has revealed tiny cracks on a penetration at the bottom of Gravelines 1's reactor pressure vessel. ... similar faults were dealt with in 2003 at the South Texas Project site in the USA. ... EDF has been requested by the ASN to check all its 900 MWe and 1300 MWe reactors for similar cracks - a total of 54 units.
The 2005-2008 period sent another stern warning that a discretionary, oil-based lifestyle was unlikely to be sustainable in America. ... the Obama Administration could have easily used the financial crisis to start rebuilding our rail system: securing for itself a win-win in both job creation, and, a lessening of the economy’s energy intensity.
With sobering energy cost statistics, a map of rail abandonment and plans for efficient rail revival.
US regulation of transgentic animals is confusing and inadequate. The widespread use of toxic corn in the US shows that regulation is also unable to protect public health.
Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple (AAPL) Inc., told his biographer that he’d rather wage “thermonuclear war” with Google Inc. than make deals to share its technology with the maker of the Android operating system. ... as rulings start coming in, it might be time for a détente that helps Apple maximize the value of its patents, said Kevin Rivette, a managing partner at 3LP Advisors LLC, a firm that advises on intellectual property.
Fat chance. Apple's burnt it's bridge with suppliers who will now do what they can to get loose.
[$200 million will be spent] Thurrott notes that “on AT&T at least, Nokia is outspending Microsoft 2-to-1.” ... the plan includes a per-unit sales incentive for retail employees that sell a Windows Phone handset.
Microsoft friendly articles are disgusting.
Although their individual express support of the bill has been removed, these companies still back it by virtue of their association with the ESA.
Just like Microsoft and GoDaddy, they are only sorry that people noticed.
There was alscontempt of court but no one should be dragged to court for what was allegedly said.
I had 20 "groups" I placed people in, one for each security setting Facebook allowed me to specify as "custom". I controlled who could see my wall, who could write on it, who could see my friends list, who could see where I worked, specific photo albums, etc. Employers versus family versus friends versus fans versus strangers -- trust relationships. Then Facebook "simplified" security and suddenly a lot of people I friended who were controlled casual relationships suddenly had access to a bunch of personal information I didn't want them to see.
Less obvious violations of privacy are more menacing still.
IN his inaugural address, President Obama called on us to “reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.” We agree. Now, to protect both, he must veto the National Defense Authorization Act that Congress is expected to pass this week.
The disaster did not happen right away, because there were plenty of jobs in the late 1990s.
What is entering the public domain in the United States? Nothing. Once again, we will have nothing to celebrate this January 1st. Not a single published work is entering the public domain this year. Or next year, or the year after that. In fact, in the United States, no publication will enter the public domain until 2019. And wherever in the world you live, you will likely have to wait a very long time for anything to reach the public domain.
I sometimes hear the old guard say that there would be no culture if there was no copyright monopoly. That is an outrageous insult to creators all over the world today. We create not because of a monopoly, but because of who we are; we have created and shared culture since we learned to put red paint on the inside of cave walls. ... I reject and oppose this monopoly that was never for the creators, but always for the distributors: a guild whose time is up and obsolete, and which has no business trampling on our civil liberties.