Slashback: Newton, Wal-Mart, Eats

Slashback tonight brings you quick updates on the stolen copy of Newton's Principia, Linux at Wal-Mart (dot com), Free software vs. free software in India, and food for the desperate computerist. Read on!

Honestly, where would they have unloaded that anyway? yorgasor writes "Yahoo reports that the stolen copies of Newton's Principia have been successfully recovered. The thieves are also suspected of other thefts from several Moscow and St Petersburg libraries."

They have everything. An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Lycoris joins Lindows and Mandrake in being preloaded for walmart.com: 'The new $199 Desktop/LX Certified MicroTel PCs include the Desktop/ LX operating system. Desktop/LX also includes the following incredible software features without any additional downloading:'"

Who needs a war? Krieger writes "I found this link to the definitive browser wars at HardOCP, where you get to play checkers to prove your browsers superiority. Taking the browser wars to a new high/low?"

Here's the hook, can you pass that sinker please ... JoeWalsh writes "According to this article, earlier this month RMS visited India and tried to convince them to use Free (as in freedom) Software. Then along comes Bill Gates this month, handing out free (as in beer) software, and suddenly India isn't interested in RMS's message. A choice quote: "We are a poor country. We cannot develop operating systems and platforms on our own." Did RMS tell them they couldn't use GNU/Linux, or is this more Microsoft propaganda at work?"

Comments

Re:RMS vs. BJG

[shaitand]

Microsoft has finished product? I've never seen a piece of microsoft "finished product" that wasn't released at sub beta quality. On the other hand I've seen open source projects that are significantly more stable that are still called betas because the maintainers aren't satisfied yet.

Re:Clueless masses

[Anonymous Coward]

First time "trailer home" computer buyers?

Racist pig. Perfectly legitmate, upstanding citizens can live in trailer homes. I'm sure your priviliged ass sneers at those less fortunate then yourself, but we don't all have trust funds. Some of us work to make a life for ourselves and don't need your highbrow asss sneering at us from behind your fancy tails and caviar.

Re:An orgy of clicking and death!

[gvonk]

therefore for the extreme dexterity of the middle finger of my right hand. ...hmmm, this is Slashdot, so... I gotta assume you're giving your girlfriend the finger on a daily basis and her low self-esteem causes her to appreciate even this small, rude token of attention.