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OOXML on paper isn't necessarily a horrible example of an open format.

Note that ODF (the stack to the right) is already a large standard, and the two standards are supposed to cover exactly the same thing. Which would you prefer to implement?

A new multi-national nobility (/mafia) who could fit into the average conference venue, are trying to obtain the wealth and power of the whole world. To do this they are willing subvert all governmental and non-governmental institutions into following the cause of this new monarchy.

The particular aim is to stop any competition or checks and balances that might restrain the growth of their power. Conflicts of interests and corruption don't matter to them, they have their own values and own replacement values over the traditional Judeo-Christian values that built the modern world.

So a police follows old media companies rather than the good of society. To him he feels no shame because he does not believe in democracy, he believes in "Intellectual Property", a doctrine not unlike the divine right of kings. Like Tudor monarchs gave out monopolies to the nobility and enforced them with the sword, so does the new nobility.

If we really lived in a democracy, then filesharing would be legal, because more people fileshare than vote for the government.

Did you read this?

or this

True in part because you also have to use Windows to use the SDK.

No SDK for Linux and if you hack it to work on Linux via Wine then you break the terms of the licence.

Apologies for the plug but I was just moaning about this today.

The Court of First Instance's judgement, like the commission's before it, sees Samba as the means for competition, in the Work group server space (i.e. file servers, print servers, etc). All potential competitors to Microsoft are using Samba, (the commissions own research found that 98% of competing products in this space use Samba), so it is good that the commission and the CFI are keen to get the documentation from Microsoft in a form that open source projects such as samba can use.

P.S. Shamless plug, I ranted a lot about this on my own site

And we bring down a site from a link in the OP.

How the hell, indeed, it is really sad that in 2007 a cult can put someone in prison. I personally cannot do much about it, but I can link to his site ( http://www.operatingthetan.com/ ), so I made a button:

http://commandline.org.uk/images/icons/freekeithhe nson.png

Pretty rubbish I know, is there anyone out there with photoshop/gimp skills that can do better?

What great Amiga games, I remember every one. So my reply is here:

Top 10 Most Influential Linux Games

Yes linux does really have ten games :-)

"But truth be told I like building my own PCs and having the extra options that goes along with that."

Yeah that is the reason that I do not have as much Apple hardware as non-Apple hardware, Apple stuff is very restricted.

If I may shamelessly plug a little bit. I have already talked elsewhere about "OS X on Non-Apple hardware" as well as the closing of the forums in Would Jesus run OS X on a white box?.

Another useful view on this matter is provided by Hisram. Also see Javier blog, for a more Apple-friendly take on the situation.

"But truth be told I like building my own PCs and having the extra options that goes along with that."

Yeah that is the reason that I do not have as much Apple hardware as non-Apple hardware, Apple stuff is very restricted.

If I may shamelessly plug a little bit. I have already talked elsewhere about "OS X on Non-Apple hardware" as well as the closing of the forums in Would Jesus run OS X on a white box?.

Another useful view on this matter is provided by Hisram. Also see Javier blog, for a more Apple-friendly take on the situation.