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  1. Re:Slashdot, official bitcoin mouthpiece by Troed · · Score: 2 · on Race To Mine Bitcoins Drives Enthusiasts Into the Chip Making Business

    Le Monde had an in depth article on Bitcoin just a few days ago. I think if you really researched it you'd find the same to be true for most countries. Bitcoin has entered public consciousness.

    http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2012/11/29/payer-et-vendre-sans-les-banques_1798066_1650684.html

    http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-29/dollar-less-iranians-discover-virtual-currency
    http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628925.200-virtual-economy-looms-as-digital-cash-grows-up.html?full=true
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20510447
    http://www.ftd.de/finanzen/maerkte/:kunstwaehrung-das-bitcoin-virus/70118697.html

  2. Re:That's the reason. SUUUURE! by Asic+Eng · · Score: 1 · on Siemens To Exit Nuclear Power Business

    I think more likely the reason is a hopeless business situation Siemens has maneuvered itself into. They used to have a partnership with French company Areva, then they wanted to ditch them in favour of Russian Rosatom. Areva sued and won, banning Siemens from competing internationally with their former partner and paying them EU 682 million in compensation. Together with basically the complete loss of the domestic market, Siemens had no options left. Source (German language).

  3. More than a ripoff by gmthor · · Score: 1 · on Facebook Sues German Company, Claims Ripoff

    Facebooks also claims that studivz illegally gained access to their servers...what ever they mean with that. Or that's what the german finacial times wrote anyway. (german)

  4. Older article by Lars+T. · · Score: 4, Informative · on Lack Of iTunes Phone Marketing Irks Motorola
    From Financial Times Deutschland (March 11th) original article in German - (imagine a Google translation link here, the URL refuses to work when posted here).

    This article claims that Apple stopped Motorola from showing the phones. An article on Heise News even claims journalists were kept from making photos of the empty space where the phones were supposed to be presented.

  5. Re:Airships needed. by hughk · · Score: 1 · on Building the A380
    Amazingly enough it looks like Universal Express may be trying to pick up the pieces.

    There is actually quite a market for moving large pieces of equipment around, and it would be good to get them off the roads. River/Canal helps but they usually have to move the last few km over land, which is always problematic.

  6. More Coverage ... by wiZd0m · · Score: 4, Informative · on Brain vs. Computer: Place Your Bets
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  7. Microsoft goes softer on Linux?????? by anonymous+cupboard · · Score: 1 · on RMS Says Free Software Is Good
    I am tagging this reply hear rather than as a separate article because I believe that it belongs with the Microsoft vs. Linux/Open Software debate that this posting is part of.

    I quote from an article in the Financial Times Deutschland. This is my own translation from the German so all disclaimers apply:

    "Linux plays a dominant role and is much stronger than in the US, and we must make this clare to the Americans" says Kurt Sibold, designated chief of Microsoft Germany.
    he then goes on to say:
    "There is no business model behind Linux and that makes things difficult. It is easier for us to go against other companies like Sun"
    This is a senior person in Microsoft (Germany is not a small marketplace, saying that MS must take Linux seriously. The latter statement is a good admission why MS head-office seems to have problems to come up with sensible statements.

    Next thing to quote Computerwoche David Turner, Lead programmer of MS's .NET commented on the open source availability of SOUP that:

    In spite of the hype about Windows vs. Linux, many people want to use both.
    What does this mean? Well MS seems to be tacitly accepting that Linux has already made serious inroads at SMEs and must be taken seriously as a given fact here. That GPL/Open Source is popular, particularly in Germany and Europe so it can not be ignored. It si certain that they will try their usual policy of embrace and extend and I hope that the OS/FSF can help fight this, then we are talking about a real alternative to MS which they can not just fight with disinformation as in Mundie et al.
  8. Microsoft goes softer on Linux?????? by anonymous+cupboard · · Score: 1 · on RMS Says Free Software Is Good
    I am tagging this reply hear rather than as a separate article because I believe that it belongs with the Microsoft vs. Linux/Open Software debate that this posting is part of.

    I quote from an article in the Financial Times Deutschland. This is my own translation from the German so all disclaimers apply:

    "Linux plays a dominant role and is much stronger than in the US, and we must make this clare to the Americans" says Kurt Sibold, designated chief of Microsoft Germany.
    he then goes on to say:
    "There is no business model behind Linux and that makes things difficult. It is easier for us to go against other companies like Sun"
    This is a senior person in Microsoft (Germany is not a small marketplace, saying that MS must take Linux seriously. The latter statement is a good admission why MS head-office seems to have problems to come up with sensible statements.

    Next thing to quote Computerwoche David Turner, Lead programmer of MS's .NET commented on the open source availability of SOUP that:

    In spite of the hype about Windows vs. Linux, many people want to use both.
    What does this mean? Well MS seems to be tacitly accepting that Linux has already made serious inroads at SMEs and must be taken seriously as a given fact here. That GPL/Open Source is popular, particularly in Germany and Europe so it can not be ignored. It si certain that they will try their usual policy of embrace and extend and I hope that the OS/FSF can help fight this, then we are talking about a real alternative to MS which they can not just fight with disinformation as in Mundie et al.