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7,000 spam messages & Debian Day Volunteer Suicide

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 06, 2024

Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock.

The latest revelation in the story of Frans Pop, the Debian Day Volunteer Suicide victim, is that he was given the tedious chore of cleaning 7,000 spam messages from the Debian archives.

Subject: Re: Death of Frans Pop
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:13:10 +0200
From: Cord Beermann <cord@debian.org>
Organization: Wunder-Nett - Community Of Alternative Communication
To: debian-private@lists.debian.org

Hallo! Du (Martin Zobel-Helas) hast geschrieben:
We worked together in the Listmasterteam, where Frans concentrated on the listarchive. He laid the grounds for the Spam-Removal-Effort and reviewed more than 7000 articles in the archive. I'm shocked and sad.
>I would like to suggest that the project sends a bouquet to funeral.
I second this, Cord

Here is one of Frans' last messages about this tedious chore. More details are in wiki pages. Reviewing spam messages sounds a lot like cleaning the toilets at FOSDEM. Why was there pressure on a volunteer to do a task like this? This mountain of spam messages existed on top of the enormous flame wars on debian-private, another possible factor in the suicide.

It is interesting to contrast Pop's burden with the tasks assigned to Outreachy candidates. While Pop wasn't paid anything, the Albanian woman photographed next to Chris Lamb at the DebConf19 dinner was paid $6,000 for sending approximately 100 emails to DebConf sponsors. Here is her report on her blog:

These weeks I have been reaching out to nearly 100 possible sponsors around the globe, sending them the sponsorship email based on a template that I had been working on during the application phase of Outreachy. Every change or update about everything related to the conference is documented in a Debian repo, which has made me improve my skills on using git commands and learn many more commands that make my work easier.

This is another huge insult to Pop and other volunteers: Lamb paid the woman to learn how to do things that other volunteers are doing for free.

The woman in question received numerous free trips to tech conferences. Frans Pop was excluded from the same release dedication granted to other contributors such as Joel Klecker, Thiemo Seufer and Ian Murdock.

Who benefits from the tedious chores performed by gullible volunteers?

In 2022, Software in the Public Interest, Inc filed an opposition against the Debian trademark registration in Switzerland. As a basis for their application, they claim that Debian is a well known trademark under the Paris Convention. To justify this claim, they submitted the following list of companies exploiting Frans Pop & Debian. How many of these companies have a Modern Slavery Policy?

Is there Modern Slavery in Debian and Open Source?

Debian, Software in the Public Interest, trademark, cyberbullying

Come già riportato nell’incipit del presente paragrafo, la nascita del progetto DEBIAN risale al 1997, ed ogni paese ha al proprio interno una comunità attiva di sviluppatori volontari che si occupano di progettare,
testare e distribuire programmi basati sul sistema operativo multipiattaforma DEBIAN per i più svariati usi;
ogni anno, a partire dal 2004, come visibile qui https://www.debconf.org/ è stata organizzata una conferenza
internazionale alla quale partecipano tutti gli sviluppatori volontari che fanno parte delle diverse comunità
nazionali attive in ciascun paese del mondo (la lista dei paesi è visibile nel macrogruppo Entries by region ed
annovera, inter alia, Svizzera, Francia, Germania, Italia, Regno Unito, Polonia, Austria, Spagna, Norvegia,
Belgio, USA ecc, oltre ad estendersi a Sud est asiatico, all’Africa e all’America Latina).

Consultando, ad esempio, il documento DebConf13 - Sponsors relativo alla conferenza per l’anno 2013 visibile nella Section Swiss Debian Community, si nota che fra i numerosi sponsor spiccano Google, la arcinota società creatrice del famosissimo ed omonimo motore di ricerca, e HP, il noto produttore di hardware; allo stesso modo, consultando il documento DebConf15 - Sponsors visibile nella Section European Debian Community, fra gli sponsor della conferenza per l’anno 2015, è possibile annoverare nuovamente Google, HP oltre a IBM, il noto produttore di software e hardware, VALVE, il noto distributore di videogiochi online, Fujitsu, il noto produttore di hardware, nonché BMW GROUP, il noto produttore di autoveicoli. Per quanto concerne l’ultima conferenza svoltasi appunto nel 2022, visionando il documento DebConf22 sponsorship brochure visibile nella Section European Debian Community, è possibile annoverare tra gli sponsor, oltre a Google, anche Lenovo, il noto produttore di hardware, e Infomaniak, il più grande fornitore di hosting per siti internet della Svizzera (tale azienda, oltre ad aver sponsorizzato numerose edizioni della conferenza annuale, offre anche servizi di streaming e video on demand, ospitando più di 200.000 domini, 150.000 siti web e 350 stazioni radio/TV).
La stessa tipologia di informazioni, a livello europeo, può essere rinvenuta consultando la voce Entries in section European Debian Communiy nella sezione Entries by section.
Fra gli altri sponsor di cui alle diverse conferenze tenutesi annualmente, si annoverano, inoltre, l’Università di Zurigo-Dipartimento di informatica, il Politecnico di Zurigo-Dipartimento di Ingegneria elettrica, la PricewaterhouseCooper (notissima società di revisione), Amazon Web Services (la piattaforma di cloud computing e servizi web di proprietà di Amazon, la arcinota società di commercio elettronico statunitense), Roche (la nota casa farmaceutica), Univention Corporate Server (nota società tedesca produttrice di software open source per la gestione di infrastrutte informatiche complesse), Hitachi (noto produttore di hardware) il Cantone di Neuchâtel ecc., oltre ad un nutrito numero di altre società private ed altri enti; per una panoramica delle conferenze annuali tenutesi negli ultimi dieci anni è possibile osservare la relativa documentazione promozionale filtrando le Categories e cercando la voce Community – DebConf.
Osservando inoltre il macro gruppo Entries by year, è stato anche raccolto materiale volto a coprire l’ultimo decennio di attività, 2012/2022, del progetto DEBIAN compiegando documenti provenienti da diverse fonti della stampa specializzata e non, attestazioni da parte di Università e Centri di ricerca nazionali ed esteri, attestazioni da parte di utilizzatori del software DEBIAN per la propria attività imprenditoriale/commerciale ecc.
Il software DEBIAN di SPI è infatti utilizzato sia da numerose società private in Svizzera e nella Unione Europea, sia da numerosi enti istituzionali e di ricerca attivi nei più svariati ambiti.
I documenti disponibili nella Entries by section alla voce Cooperation with private companies in Switzerland mostrano infatti come LIIP www.liip.ch una nota società svizzera (con sedi a Losanna, Friburgo, Berna, Basilea, Zurigo e San Gallo) attiva nella prestazione di servizi connessi alla rete internet quali, ad esempio, registrazione di domini per siti internet, configurazione di Server, servizi di hosting e per la creazione di siti web, campagne pubblicitarie via internet, gestione dei social network, sia anch’essa una utilizzatrice di Debian e, fra l’altro, anche uno degli sponsor delle conferenze annuali degli sviluppatori volontari.
Un altro documento incluso sotto la stessa voce, Debian Training Courses in Switzerland, mostra come vengano tenuti corsi di formazione sul software DEBIAN; sempre sotto la stessa voce, il documento Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Switzerland for all customers mostra come il servizio di cloud computing di Microsoft (notissimo produttore di software), Microsot Azure, offra il software DEBIAN tra la selezione dei software messi a disposizione.
Sempre sotto la stessa voce, per mostrare la trasversalità e la permeazione del software DEBIAN in tutti i settori delle cerchie interessate, vi sono documenti che attestano, ad esempio, come un centro osteopatico a Losanna, https://osteo7-7.ch/ operi con server dotati del software DEBIAN, che la casa editrice Ringier AG di Zurigo attiva nei mercati di quotidiani, periodici, televisione, web e raccolta pubblicitaria si sia occupata del software DEBIAN e che Lenovo (noto produttore di hardware) si sia interessato anch’esso al software DEBIAN.
I documenti disponibili nella Entries by section alla voce Cooperation with private companies in the European Union mostrano la notorietà del software DEBIAN presso svariate società localizzate in diversi paesi europei, ad esempio, Logikon labs http://www.logikonlabs.com/ in Grecia, Servicio Técnico, Open Tech S.L https://www.opentech.es/ in Spagna, ALTISCENE http://www.altiscene.fr/, Logilab https://www.logilab.fr/, Bureau d'études et valorisations archéologiques Éveha https://www.eveha.fr/ in Francia, 99ideas https://99ideas.pl/ e Roan Agencja Interaktywna https://roan24.pl/ in Polonia, Mendix Technology https://www.mendix.com/ in Olanda; in ragione del numero particolarmente elevato di documenti, pari a 135 unità, si invita pertanto a prendere visione dell’elevato di società piccole, medie e grandi che vedono il software DEBIAN alla base dei loro sistemi informatici.
Consultando le voci Research & Papers, Institutional/Governmental cooperation e Miscellaneous nella sezione Entries by section, si possono rinvenire una serie di documenti inerenti articoli divulgativi, scientifici, saggi di ricerca, abstract di tesi, monografie, brevi guide ecc., aventi ad oggetto il software DEBIAN, realizzati, inter alia, dal Politecnico di Zurigo, dall’Università di Edimburgo, dall’Università di Oxford, dall’EPFL di Losanna, dalla Università di Ginevra, dall’Università di Roma Tor Vergata, dall’European Synchrotron Radiation Facility di Grenoble, dal WSL Istituto per lo studio della neve e delle valanghe SLF di Davos, dall’Università Politécnica di Madrid, dalla Scuola Specializzata Superiore di Economia-Sezione di Informatica di Gestione del Canton Ticino, dalla Unione internazionale delle telecomunicazioni di Ginevra, dalla BBC del Regno Unito, dal CERN di Ginevra, dall’Università di Glasgow, dalla Università di Durham ecc.
Le voci Swiss press coverage e European press coverage nella sezione Entries by section includono una rassegna stampa, sia a livello svizzero sia a livello europeo, inerente articoli aventi ad oggetto il software DEBIAN, inter alia, da parte di www.netzwoche.ch, Swiss IT Magazine, RTS Info, Corriere della Sera, Linux Magazine, www.heise.de, www.gamestar.de, The Guardian, la BBC, L’Espresso, Il Disinformatico (blog amministrato dal noto giornalista ticinese Paolo Attivissimo), Linux user, www.computerbase.de, www.derstandard.at, https://blog.programster.org/ , www.digi.no, Linux Magazine https://www.linux-magazine.com/, ecc.
Verificando le voci Attestation & Statements by third parties, Switzerland, nella colonna Entries by section, si nota come diversi attori facenti parte delle cerchie commerciali determinanti, composte da consumatori, canali di distribuzione e commercianti, abbiano reso esplicite attestazioni di notorietà e conoscenza del marchio DEBIAN in Svizzera per i prodotti rivendicati nella classe 9 (“Logiciels de système d'exploitation et centres publics de traitement de l'information.”):
- il WSL Istituto per lo studio della neve e delle valanghe SLF di Davos; - il Dipartimento di Informatica dell’Università di Zurigo; - il provider di servizi internet www.oriented.net di Basilea; - il centro osteopatico Osteo 7/7 www.osteo7-7.ch con sedi a Losanna e Ginevra; - il CERN www.home.web.cern.ch di Ginevra per il tramite dell’Ing. Javier Serrano in qualità di BE-CEM - Electronics Design and Low-level software (EDL) Section Leader presso il CERN; - www.infomaniak.com il più grande fornitore di hosting per siti internet della Svizzera (tale azienda offre anche servizi di streaming e video on demand, ospitando più di 200.000 domini, 150.000 siti web e 350 stazioni radio/TV) per il tramite del CEO di Infomaniak.com Boris Siegenthaler; - www.liip.ch nota società svizzera (con sedi a Losanna, Friburgo, Berna, Basilea, Zurigo e San Gallo) attiva nella prestazione di servizi connessi alla rete internet quali, ad esempio, registrazione di domini per siti internet, configurazione di Server, servizi di hosting e per la creazione di siti web, campagne pubblicitarie via internet e gestione dei social network, per il tramite del cofondatore e partner di LIIP Gerhard Andrey; - www.microsoft.com notissimo produttore di software e servizi cloud (Windows, Microsoft Azure ecc.), per il tramite di Sarah Novotny, Direttrice della strategia Open Source di Microsoft; - www.microsoft.com notissimo produttore di software e servizi cloud (Windows, Microsoft Azure ecc.), per il tramite dell’Ing. KY Srinivasan quale Distinguished Engineer di Microsoft; - www.microsoft.com notissimo produttore di software e servizi cloud (Windows, Microsoft Azure ecc.), per il tramite dell’Ing. Joshua Poulson quale Program Manager di Microsoft; - il CERN www.home.web.cern.ch di Ginevra per il tramite del Dr. Axel Nauman in qualità di Senior applied physicist and ROOT Project Leader presso il CERN; - www.univention.com uno dei principali fornitori di software open source nei settori della gestione delle identità e dell'integrazione e distribuzione delle applicazioni in Europa e Svizzera, che conta migliaia di utenti e organizzazioni partner, per il tramite del CEO di Uninvention Peter H. Ganten.
Alla voce, sottostante a quella di cui sopra, verificando le voci Attestation & Statements by third parties, European Union, nella colonna Entries by section, si nota come diversi attori facenti parte delle cerchie commerciali determinanti, composte da consumatori, canali di distribuzione e commercianti, abbiano reso esplicite attestazioni di notorietà e conoscenza del marchio DEBIAN in Europa per i prodotti rivendicati nella classe 9 (“Logiciels de système d'exploitation et centres publics de traitement de l'information.”) per un totale di ben 146 records (di cui si riportano i primi 25 qui di seguito):
- il Rost-Lab Bioinformatics Group dell’Università tedesca di Monaco; - la società greca Logikon Labs di Atene; - il Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Università italiana di Roma Tor Vergata; - la società spagnola Servicio Técnico, Open Tech SL di Las Palmas; - la società francese ALTISCENE di Tolosa; - la società polacca Zakład Gospodarowania Nieruchomościami w Dzielnicy Mokotów m.st. di Varsavia; - la società francese Logilab di Parigi; - la società svedese www.Bayour.com di Göteborg; - l’ente francese ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) di Grenoble; - la società austriaca www.mur.at di Graz; - la società polacca www.Dictionaries24.com di Poznan; - l’organizzazione no-profit francese TuxFamily; - l’ente tedesco LINKES FORUM di Kreis; - la società polacca www.99ideas.com di Gliwice; - il Departamento de Arquitectura y Tecnología de Sistemas Informáticos (Facultad de Informática), dell’Universidad Politécnica spagnola di Madrid; - la società italiana Reware Soc. Coop di Roma; - la società polacca Roan Agencja Interaktywna di Gorzów; - la società slovacca RoDi Zilina; - la società olandese Mendix Technology di Rotterdam; - l’ente francese Bureau d'études et valorisations archéologiques Éveha di Limoges; - la società olandese AlterWeb; - l’Electronics Research Group dell’Università inglese di Aberdeen; - la società olandese MrHostman di Montfoort; - la società polacca System rezerwacji online Nakiedy di Gdansk; oltre, come detto, alle restanti testimonianze e attestazioni rese dalle più disparate società e diversi enti pubblici e privati aventi base/sede, rispettivamente, in Svizzera, Italia, Germania, Regno Unito, Francia, Polonia, Austria, Spagna, Olanda, Norvegia, Belgio, Repubblica Ceca, Svezia, Bulgaria, Grecia, Finlandia, Kosovo, Slovacchia, Bosnia, Danimarca, Ungheria, Lituania, Romania, di cui invitiamo a prendere visione.
Per dimostrare sia a livello nominativo, dimostrando inoltre la diffusione numericamente quantitativa, degli utilizzatori del software DEBIAN, si riporta di seguito un estratto del sito web del progetto DEBIAN https://www.debian.org/users/index.it.html tramite il quale si possono scorrere tutte le attestazioni volontariamente lasciate sul sito www.debian.org del progetto DEBIAN dagli utilizzatori finali (ciascun nominativo è un link interattivo al sito https://www.debian.org/users/index.it.html), di diversa estrazione, del software DEBIAN:
Istituzioni educative (educational)
Commerciali (commercial) Organizzazioni non-profit (non-profit) Enti statali (government) Istituzioni educative (educational) Electronics Research Group, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland General Students' Committee (AStA), Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany Athénée Royal de Gembloux, Gembloux, Belgium Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, UK CEIC, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy Mexican Space Weather Service (SCiESMEX), Geophysics Institute campus Morelia (IGUM), National University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico COC Araraquara, Brazil Departamento de Arquitectura y Tecnología de Sistemas Informáticos (Facultad de Informática), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Department of Control Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Genomics Research Group, CRIBI - Università di Padova, Italy Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy Nucleo Lab, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia Department of Physics, Harvard University, USA Infowebhosting, Perugia, Italy Medical Information System Laboratory, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan Bioinformatics & Theo. Biology Group, Dept. of Biology, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany Center for Climate Risk and Opportunity Management in Southeast Asia and Pacific, Indonesia Laboratorio de Comunicaciones Digitales, Universidad Nac. de Cordoba, Argentina Laboratorio di Calcolo e Multimedia, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Department of Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Lycée Molière, Belgium Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany Computer Department, Model Engineering College, Cochin, India Medicina - Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Cipolletti, Río Negro, Argentina Artificial Intelligence Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Montana Tech, Butte, Montana, USA Mittelschule, Montessoriverein Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany Laboratory GQE-Le Moulon / CNRS / INRAE, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Department of Measurement and Control Technology MRT (Department of Mechanical Engineering), University of Kassel, Germany Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Muthayammal Engineering College, Rasipuram, Tamilnadu, India Spanish Bioinformatics Institute, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain NI, Núcleo de Informática, Brazil Software & Networking Lab, National University of Oil and Gas, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine Parallel Processing Group, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece Departamento de Matemática -- Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil Departamento de Informática -- Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil Protein Design Group, National Center for Biotechnology, Spain Rost Lab/Bioinformatics Group, Technical University of Munich, Germany Department of Computer Science, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Don Bosco Technical Institute, Sunyani, Ghana Instituto de Robótica y Automática, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, University of Sevilla, Spain Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Iran Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Università di Padova, Italy School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India Department of Computer and Engineering, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India Library and IT Services, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands Computer Science Department, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut, USA Turnkey IT Training Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka. System Department, University of Santander, Cúcuta, Colombia Academic Administration, Universidad de El Salvador, El Salvador Universitas Indonesia (UI), Depok, Indonesia Laboratoire de Chimie physique, CNRS UMR 8000, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France Dirección de Tecnología e Informática, Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA Laboratoire VERIMAG, CNRS/Grenoble INP/Université Joseph Fourier, France Centre for Information Technology, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic Game Development Club, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA, USA
Commerciali (commercial)
IT Department, 100ASA Srl, Dragoni, Italy 99ideas, Gliwice, Poland Tech Dept, ABC Startsiden AS, Oslo, Norway Admins.CZ, Prague, Czech Republic AdvertSolutions.com, United Kingdom Kancelaria Adwokacka Adwokat Wiktor Gamracki, Rzeszów, Poland Adwokat radca prawny, Poznan Lodz, Poland AFR@NET, Tehran, Iran African Lottery, Cape Town, South Africa AKAOMA Consulting, France Alfabet Sukcesu, Lubliniec, Poland AlterWeb Altiria, Spain ALTISCENE, Toulouse, France Anykey Solutions, Sweden JSC VS, Russia Apache Auto Parts Incorporated, Parma USA Applied Business Solutions, São Paulo, Brazil Archiwwwe, Stockholm, Sweden Computational Archaeology Division, Arc-Team, Cles, Italy Articulate Labs, Inc., Dallas, TX, US Athena Capital Research, USA Atrium 21 Sp. z o.o. Warsaw, Poland Co. AUSA, Almacenes Universales SA, Cuba Agencja interaktywna Avangardo, Szczecin, Poland Axigent Technologies Group, Inc., Amarillo, Texas, USA Ayonix, Inc., Japan AZ Imballaggi S.r.l., Pontedera, Italy Backblaze Inc, USA Baraco Compañia Anónima, Venezuela Big Rig Tax, USA BioDec, Italy bitName, Italy BMR Genomics, Padova, Italy B-Open Solutions srl, Italy Braithwaite Technology Consultants Inc., Canada BrandLive, Warsaw, Poland calbasi.net web developers, Catalonia, Spain Camping Porticciolo, Bracciano (Rome), Italy CAROL - Cooperativa dos Agricultores da Região de Orlândia, Orlândia, São Paulo, Brazil Centros de Desintoxicación 10, Grupo Dropalia, Alicante, Spain Charles Retina Institute, Tennessee, USA Chrysanthou & Chrysanthou LLC, Nicosia, Cyprus CIE ADEMUR, Spain CLICKPRESS Internet agency, Iserlohn, Germany Code Enigma Companion Travel LLC, Tula, Russia Computación Integral, Chile Computerisms, Yukon, Canada CRX LTDA, Santiago, Chile CyberCartes, Marseilles, France DataPath Inc. - Software Solutions for Employee Benefit Plans, USA Datasul Paranaense, Curitiba PR, Brazil Internal IT, Dawan, France DEQX, Australia Diciannove Soc. Coop., Italy DigitalLinx, Kansas City, MO, USA Directory Wizards Inc, Delaware, USA IT / Sales Department, Diversicom Corp of Riverview, USA Dubiel Vitrum, Rabka, Rabka, Poland Eactive, Wroclaw, Poland eCompute Corporation, Japan Agencja Interaktywna Empressia, Poznan, Poland enbuenosaires.com, Buenos Aires, Argentina Eniverse, Warsaw, Poland Epigenomics, Berlin, Germany Essential Systems, UK Ethan Clark Air Conditioning, Houston, Texas, USA EuroNetics Operation KB, Sweden Bureau d'études et valorisations archéologiques Éveha, Limoges, France Fahrwerk Kurierkollektiv UG, Berlin, Germany Faunalia, AP, Italy Flamingo Agency, Chicago, IL, USA Freeside Internet Services, Inc., USA Frogfoot Networks, South Africa French Travel Organisation, Nantes, France Fusion Marketing, Cracow, Poland IT, Geodata Danmark, Denmark GigaTux, London, UK Globalways AG, Germany GNUtransfer - GNU Hosting, Mar del Plata, Argentina G.O.D. Gesellschaft für Organisation und Datenverarbeitung mbH, Germany Goodwin Technology, Springvale, Maine, USA GPLHost LLC, Wilmington, Delaware, USA; GPLHost UK LTD, London, United Kingdom; GPLHost Networks PTE LTD, Singapore, Singapore Hermes IT, Romania HeureKA -- Der EDV Dienstleister, Austria HostingChecker, Varna, Bulgaria Hostsharing eG (Cooperation), Germany Hotel in Rome, Foggia, Italy Huevo Vibrador, Madrid, Spain ICNS, X-tec GmbH, Germany Instasent, Madrid, Spain IT outsourcing department, InTerra Ltd., Russian Federation IreneMilito.it, Cosenza, Italy Iskon Internet d.d., Croatia IT Lab, Foggia, Italy Keliweb SRL, Cosenza, Italy Kosmetyczny Outlet, KosmetycznyOutlet, Wroclaw, Poland Kulturystyka.sklep.pl sp. z o.o, Kleszczow, Poland Linden Lab, San Francisco, California, USA Linode, USA LinuxCareer.com, Rendek Online Media, Australia Linuxlabs, Krakow, Poland IT services, Lixper S.r.L., Italy Logikon Labs, Athens, Greece Logilab, Paris, France Madkom Ltd. (Madkom Sp. z o.o.), Poland Inmobiliaria Mar Menuda SA, Tossa de Mar, Spain IT Services, Medhurst Communications Ltd, UK Media Design, The Netherlands Mediasecure, London, United Kingdom Megaserwis S.C. Serwis laptopów i odzyskiwanie danych, Warsaw, Poland Mendix Technology, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Mobusi Mobile Performance Advertising, Los Angeles, California, USA Molino Harinero Sula, S.A., Honduras MrHostman, Montfoort, The Netherlands MTTM La Fraternelle, France System rezerwacji online Nakiedy, Gdansk, Poland New England Ski Areas Council, USA IT Ops, NG Communications bvba, Kortenberg, Belgium nPulse Technologies, LLC, Charlottesville, VA, USA Oktet Labs, Saint Petersburg, Russia One-Eighty Out, Incorporated, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA Servicio Técnico, Open Tech S.L., Las Palmas, Spain oriented.net Web Hosting, Basel, Switzerland Osteo 7/7, Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland IT Department, OutletPC, Henderson, NV, USA Parkyeri, Istanbul, Turkey Pelagicore AB, Gothenburg, Sweden Development and programming, www.perfumesyregalos.com, Spain PingvinBolt webshop, Hungary DeliveryHero Holding GmbH, IT System Operations, Berlin, Germany Portantier Information Security, Buenos Aires, Argentina Pouyasazan, Isfahan-Iran PR International Ltd, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, UK PROBESYS, Grenoble, France Agencja interaktywna Prodesigner, Szczecin, Poland Questia Media RatujLaptopa, Warsaw, Poland The Register, Situation Publishing, UK NOC, RG3.Net, Brazil RHX Studio Associato, Italy Roan Agencja Interaktywna, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland RoDi, Zilina, Slovakia Rubbettino Editore, Soveria Mannelli (CZ), Italy Industrial Router Group, RuggedCom, Canada RV-studio, Zielonka, Poland S4 Hosting, Lithuania Salt Edge Inc., Toronto, Canada Ing. Salvatore Capolupo, Cosenza, Italy Santiago Engenharia LTDA, Brazil SCA Packaging Deutschland Stiftung & Co. KG, IS Department (HO-IS), Germany Overstep SRL, Via Marco Simone, 80 00012 Guidonia Montecelio, Rome, Italy ServerHost, Bucharest, Romania Seznam.cz, a.s., Czech Republic Shellrent Srl, Vicenza, Italy Siemens Information Technology Dep., SIITE SRLS, Lodi / Milano, Italy SilverStorm Technologies, Pennsylvania, USA Sinaf Seguros, Brazil Skroutz S.A., Athens, Greece SMS Masivos, Mexico Auto Service Cavaliere, Rome, Italy soLNet, s.r.o., Czech Republic Som Tecnologia, Girona, Spain Software Development, SOURCEPARK GmbH, Berlin, Germany Computer Division, Stabilys Ltd, London, United Kingdom Departamento de administración y servicios, SW Computacion, Argentina Taxon Estudios Ambientales, SL, Murcia, Spain ITW TechSpray, Amarillo, TX, USA Tehran Raymand Co., Tehran, Iran Telsystem, Telecomunicacoes e Sistemas, Brazil The Story, Poland TI Consultores, consulting technologies of information and businesses, Nicaragua CA, Telegraaf Media ICT, Amsterdam, the Netherlands T-Mobile Czech Republic a. s. Nomura Technical Management Office Ltd., Kobe, Japan TomasiL stone engravings, Italy Tri-Art Manufacturing, Canada EDI Team, Hewlett Packard do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil Trovalost, Cosenza, Italy Taiwan uCRobotics Technology, Inc., Taoyuan, Taiwan (ROC) United Drug plc, Ireland Koodiviidakko Oy, Finland Departamento de Sistemas, La Voz de Galicia, A Coruña, Spain VPSLink, USA Wavecon GmbH, Fürth, Germany WTC Communications, Canada Wyniki Lotto Web Page, Poznan, Poland Software Development, XSoft Ltd., Bulgaria Zomerlust Systems Design (ZSD), Cape Town, South Africa
Organizzazioni non-profit (non-profit)
Bayour.com, Gothenburg, Sweden Eye Of The Beholder BBS, Fidonet Technology Network, Catalonia/Spain Dictionaries24.com, Poznan, Poland Beyond Disability Inc., Pearcedale, Australia E.O. Ospedali Galliera, Italy ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility), Grenoble, France F-Droid - the definitive source for free software Android apps GreenNet Ltd., UK GREFA, Grupo para la rehabilitación de la fauna autóctona y su hábitat, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany LINKES FORUM in Oberberg e.V., Gummersbach, Oberbergischer Kreis, Germany MAG4 Piemonte, Torino, Italy Mur.at - Verein zur Förderung von Netzwerkkunst, Graz, Austria High School Technology Services, Washington DC USA PRINT, Espace autogéré des Tanneries, France Reware Soc. Coop - Impresa Sociale, Rome, Italy Systems Support Group, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK SARA, Netherlands Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF), Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Davos, Switzerland SRON: Netherlands Institute for Space Research TuxFamily, France
Enti statali (government)
Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária - ANVISA (Health Surveillance National Agency) - Gerência de Infra-estrutura e Tecnologia (GITEC), Brazil Directorate of Information Technology, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France Gerencia de Redes, Eletronorte S/A, Brazil European Audiovisual Observatory, Strasbourg, France Informatique, Financière agricole du Québec, Canada Informática de Municípios Associados - IMA, Governo Municipal, Campinas/SP, Brazil Bureau of Immigration, Philippines Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India INSEE (National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies), France London Health Sciences Centre, Ontario, Canada Lorient Agglomération, Lorient France Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dominican Republic Procempa, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil SEMAD, Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Goiânia/GO, Brasil Servizio Informativo Comunale, Comune di Riva del Garda, ITALY St. Joseph's Health Care London, Ontario, Canada State Nature Conservation Agency, Slovakia Servicio de Prevencion y Lucha Contra Incendios Forestales, Ministerio de Produccion Provincia de Rio Negro, Argentina Vermont Department of Taxes, State of Vermont, USA Zakład Gospodarowania Nieruchomościami w Dzielnicy Mokotów m.st. Warszawy, Warsaw, Poland

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