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Slashback: BitKeeper, Maine, Novell
I thought Adam Smith was in favor of free markets and the exchange of ideas. mrjive writes "The plot thickens. In response to yesterday's story, it turns out that the attack on the free software movement was attached to the end of the letter in question by Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash, who happens to have Microsoft as his biggest beneficiary. The original authors of the letter have sent an angry response for essentially twisting its original purpose. Read the full scoop here."
For the even-fuller scoop, see Roblimo's article on NewsForge.
Not bottling it up inside of himself. An anonymous reader writes "Richard M. Stallman has responded to comments made a week ago in response to his own Linux kernel mailing list post about the BitKeeper controversy. 'A technical issue or project sometimes raises ethical issues,' Stallman began. He did not stop there. More on the (newly cached and therefore a little bit Slashdot-immune) Linux and Main . Be gentle."
Free knowledge for sale for free, etc. OverCode@work writes "The complete LaTeX source to Loki Software's game programming book, Programming Linux Games, is now available on the author's site. This book was reviewed here a while back. Mad props to the publisher for letting this happen."
Everybody'sSQL haggar writes "MySQL (commercial license) will be shipped as standard with NetWare according to this announcement. I consider it a follow-up to the Slashdot story about the PostgreSQL port for NetWare. Apparently, the options for NetWare users are widening, thanks to open-source products!"
An iBook in every (lobster)pot! Call Me Black Cloud writes "Some time ago Maine awarded a contract to Apple for laptops for school kids. MacCentral has an interview with Maine governor Angus King where he discusses the success of the program. Despite the Maine state legislature's attempts to kill the program, it continues on. Why? Well, a $1M grant from the Gates Foundation certainly helped. Over the summer Apple delivered 18,000 iBooks and installed 239 wireless networks in 239 schools."
So long as they're not mandatory. Polo writes "I noticed that the Garmin Rino 110 and 120 are shipping. If you don't remember, these are FRS/GMRS Radios with integrated GPS. You can transmit your position to other units so they can hear you and see where you are. Pretty cool. This is a follow-up to an older story"
What the market will bear. His Nastiness writes "Just a follow-up that I ran across that indicates that Steve Ballmer may have just been blowing hot air on not selling the XBox in Austrailia anymore. See the previous thread here."
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Hitler did wonderful things for unemployment in germany but i have a hard time liking him better because of that. All the donations are also deductable and since Microsoft hardly pays any taxes it pretty much is a nullsum game.
The winners are ofcourse the poor bastards but if you read up on your history youll find that we the western countries put most of the into poverty by stripping their natural resources.
We still do this and if some little pile of money trickle back to them from what we steal well good but not good enough.
Microsoft still uses shoddy games and i think that is the reason for all the donations. A feeble attemt to clear Bills dirty Conscience .
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But is it the best one we've-- as a species, I mean-- come up with so far? Yes, definitely. Name one government that has worked as long or as well as the United States
Worked for whom? Not the African or native Americans or the poor or the recent migrants - or for that matter the rest of the world who have to put up with the crap that the US government foists on us.
I never cease to be amazed at the self-congratulatory arrogance of the common American citizen. A single fool who can veto an entire elected body is rediculous (When Washington et al. were deciding on a governmental model, they only had monarchies to examine - so it's not surprising that they pick a system like this, but to stick with such an obviously flawed system for such a long time just harks of inertia, laziness and ineptitude).
Don't believe the nonsense, unless you hear it from me directly.
It's the typical path to fool people into thinking he's respectable. Worked like a charm for the criminal Robber Barons of the 19th century, and judging by your response, it's working like a charm for the corporate criminals of the 20th.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
You donate to the NRA? Since when are they a charity. What is it, "Guns for Tots"?
If they do have charitable status, it's a travesty. They fucking well shouldn't have...
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