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Linux Gaining Ground In India
GillBates0 writes "Yahoo/Reuters is reporting that Linux seems to be gaining over Microsoft in India. According to Red Hat, about 10 percent of India's personal computers will be sold with Linux rather than Microsoft operating systems by March, 2004, up from nothing in January. Linux already drives India's National Stock Exchange, and the Government of India has been promoting open source lately."
I have, due to unfortunate circumstances, lost access to my password to log on to slashdot so that I can edit and submit stories. Unfortunately, unlike most slashdotters, it is impossible for me to simply have my password emailed to me because of security concerns.
I still have a hope though. There is a little know about glitch that I purposefully programmed into the code of slashdot so that I could recover my password if it is lost. In order to recover my password I need a comment that I post to be moderated up to a score of +5, Insightful. Once my comment gets moderated up to +5, Insightful, it will be possible for me to utilize the glitch and recover my lost password, and therefore continue operating slashdot. So, now I ask of you, fellow slashdot users, please moderate this post as Insightful, so that slashdot can remain operating.
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including rumours that linus et AL may have to be .contained.
including those of us whoare subjected to va lairIE's whoreabully infactdead, pateNTdead, PostBlock(tm) devise, which is a product of the hedgemonIEd SourceForgerIE(tm). we don't think robbIE had a clue about what he was signing in blood for.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- In an Aug. 7 story about a challenge by the SCO Group to the Linux operating system's royalty-free status, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Microsoft Corp. was among the vendors of Linux-based servers.
While Microsoft recently purchased a license from SCO for Linux copies it owns (in GLARING 50 pt.), the software giant (fauxking morons) does not sell the operating system.--
what a hoot
details @ trustworthycomputing.com(edyroutine)
back on task.
we're editing this soon.
about va lairIE/robbIE et AL touting/shilling for their corepirate nazi life0cide sponsors, whilst avoiding anything/everything that really matters
this fauxking avoidance of the planet/population rescue project (previously unknown as the oil for babies program), & failing to fess up on the stock markup swindles, is disheartening, to say the leased, robbIE. you sure spouted off A LOT before you became won of those phonIE Godless payper liesense stock markup billyonerrors. same with va lairIE, & his whoreabull patentdead PostBlock(tm)/SourceForgerIE kode stealing/censoring devices. that's ok dough, as it's not yOUR worst problem.
no matter. back on task.
as to the free unlimited energy plan, as the lights come up, more&more folks will stop being misled into sucking up more&more of the infant killing barrolls of crudeness, & learn that it's more than ok to use newclear power generated by natural (hydro, solar, etc...). of course more information about not wasting anything/behaving less frivolously is bound to show up, here&there.
cyphering how many babies it costs for a barroll of crudeness, we've decided to cut back, a lot, on wasteful things like giving monIE to felons, to help them destroy the planet/population.
no matter. the #1 task is planet/population rescue. the lights are coming up. we're in crisis mode. you can help.
the unlimited power (such as has never been seen before) is freely available to all, with the possible exception of the aforementioned walking dead.
consult with/trust in yOUR creator. more breathing. vote with yOUR wallet. seek others of non-aggressive intentions/behaviours. that's the spirit, moving you.
pay no heed to the greed/fear based walking dead.
each harmed innocent carries with it a bad toll. it will be repaid by you/us. the Godless felons will not be available to make reparations.
pay attention. that's definitely affordable, plus you might develop skills which could prevent you from being misled any further by phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated misinformation.
good work so far. there's still much to be done. see you there. tell 'em robbIE.
the europeeons are laughing/crying at/for US in sympathy/disgust, as we fall/jump into the daze of the georgewellian corepirate nazi life0cide, whilst criticizing their ip gangsters, which are also members of the walking dead.
Davis, Bustamante build strategies to beat Schwarzenegger
... And I hope that now that we have a budget behind us, we will have the time to keep solving problems for people."
... We're going to have to start
Davis: "I have gotten the message"
Monday, August 11, 2003 Posted: 1:52 PM EDT (1752 GMT)
California Gov. Gray Davis: "I'm doing my best to work harder."
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SACRAMENTO, California (CNN) -- The historic -- and often murky -- recall race for California governor appeared to be taking shape Monday, with poll figures showing Arnold Schwarzenegger the strongman to beat, and both embattled Gov. Gray Davis and the only prominent Democrat running to replace him offering hints of their campaign strategies.
In TV interviews, Davis insisted he has heard the discontent of his state's voters loud and clear and is working "harder to solve people's problems," while Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante cast himself as, in certain ways, the opposite of Schwarzenegger. "I'm an average guy," he said, emphasizing, "I am probably the only non-millionaire in the race."
Both men, speaking less than a day after a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released its results, took Schwarzenegger to task for having done little, if anything, as of yet to show what his platform would be or how he would get anything done.
The Austrian-American bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-politician was in New York for a previously scheduled talk at an inner-city after-school program he helped found. "Have big dreams," he told a group of children in the audience at the City College of New York. "That was my secret. And go after those dreams."
In the poll, 42 percent of respondents said there is a good or very good chance they would vote for the charismatic movie star in the October 7 recall election, while Bustamante had the next-highest rating at 22 percent. Nearly two-thirds said they would vote to recall Davis.
"I have gotten the message," Davis told NBC's Today Show. "I understand a lot of people signed the recall. We are trying very hard every day to solve people's problems."
The governor, who presides over a state with a $38 billion deficit, acknowledged, "There's a lot of frustration and disappointment out here. I get it. I'm doing my best to work harder.
Asked about Schwarzenegger, he said, "I think Arnold Schwarzenegger will be the first to tell you he's got a long ways to go to explain what he would do as governor."
Bustamante, on CNN's American Morning, highlighted Schwarzenegger's lack of political experience. People who want to protect and further the progress the state has made on key issues, he said, will need a candidate "who can not only articulate and make sure they can say the words, but people who have been able to do it and fight and make sure they understand how to do those kind of things in California."
The excitement about Schwarzenegger, he added, "is going to wear for a while and then I think we're going to get back to a real campaign.
No, but if you show verifiable instances of his OS healing the sick then he could achieve sainthood.
No wonder India likes Linux.... With commands like fsck and chmod, which don't make any sense in english, maybe they make sense in Hindu.
You are quite ignorant. First of all, what does culture have to do with commands?
Secondly, Hindu is not a language, it is a religion. The two official languages in India are Hindi and English. Maybe next time you try to make a funny comment, do more research.
Marge, get me your address book, 4 beers, and my conversation hat.
And SCO is gaining ground in Linux
That's a first -- and here I thought moderators had a sense of humor. *shrug*
I would like some sort of curbs on job exports to these nations . The businesses are just weasling out of paying older workers health care . More here at Cringleys latest column on INDIAN offshoring.
Yet overwhelming majority of free software is developed by US and European programmers. Weird, huh?
Give it time.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."