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Fears About Microsoft Return, in Mexico
Z` points to this New York Times article, which begins: "While Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, defended the company against charges of monopolistic practices before Congress this week, legislators in Mexico City prepared their own attack against a new agreement by Microsoft and the Mexican government that could drive millions of new Internet users into Microsoft's waiting arms by the end of the year."
First first post!
FIRST POST! No... really. I find that this whole thing, M$ moveing its interests to '3rd world contries' just further proof of their monopolistic behavior... To the point we must ask... when will it stop?
-If you build it, it can fall...
The man's name is Carlos Slim Helù. Fear him.
Slashdot has always kinda sucked in that regard. Are there any good web-sites for real geeks?
I want a programming news site. Software technology, etc. Something updated as often as Slashdot but with better topics.
Mexico? Where's that?
Microsoft? Never heard of.
you're totally right. Funny that I just came to /. today for the first time in ages.
Do yourself a favor and check out a new month-old internet site called Serence. Since April 2002 they have had a free / no ads / no spyware download for your Windows desktop called Klipfolio and this thing is great. According to the site statistics 3400+ slashdotters have already downloaded the Slashdot Klip and after joining them today, I can see why. (No, I don't have any personal vested interest in this, I just think it's cool.) The Slashdot Klip stays on your desktop and downloads the XML feed from Andover/Slashdot containing current article headlines, alerting you when there is a new one. Klips from a few dozen other founding news sources with XML newsfeeds are also available in a scrolling, dockable, resizable, skinnable package. In the lower left corner of the previous link you can suggest a new klip feed to Serence you'd like to see - a great thing for you to do, the more sites that use this, the better for all of us. You can even start up your own personal Klip feed! Rack up your favorite sites in one desktop package and you are really in control...click on a headline, up comes the article, click on the site symbol, up comes the home page. Like any dot-com, Serence's success depends on market penetration and this is one idea I think deserves to be slashdotted so it has a shot at succeeding...
Offtopic? Not really, the article I'm posting under went out as a Slashdot Klip headline. And what good is maxed out karma if not to risk it in spreading the word about a cool new Slashdot feature?
His (or her) mistake was to use a lowercase letter between the less-than and greater than signs. Slashdot (or Slashcode, or whatever) wants it to be an uppercase letter.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.