The Path of Least Surveillance

prostoalex writes: "Business Week draws attention to the growth of monitoring and surveillance systems in modern society. Only in Manhattan, as article claims, there are at least 10,000 cameras. Londoners, at the same time, are caught on tape 300 times per day. Is it a necessary measure of pre-caution, or, as Marge Simpson put it, "as long as everybody is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done"?"

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M$ Office spending?

[charlie763]

I know this is way off topic, but I looked on Google and found no answers to my question.

How much money is spent on M$ office wacy year? I am curious because I hypothesise that if 10% of that amount could be invested and would yield greater long term returns. If that 10% was instead put into developing an opensource office suite (soon to be gobe) all people who use M$ Office would have a equally robust free alternative. Having this they would save future money from M$ spending.

This seems like a pretty reasoable hypothesis, however if I can think it up, why can the large businesses not? If they have, why have they not proceeded with suck a plan? Am I missing something?

This would be a pretty good "Ask Slashdot"