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FSF Wants Your Vouchers
Ridgelift writes "California residents can help support the Free Software Foundation by donating their Microsoft vouchers to the FSF. In turn, the FSF will be able to convert the vouchers into hardware. There's more information here at the FSF website. With 1.1 billion dollars in vouchers Microsoft is forced to pay through the recent anti-trust court case, it's satisfying to see some of those fortunes being spent to help create good software for a change."
Worst. President. Ever.
Recent events over on the Hurd development team regarding the GFDL have proven that RMS is more concerned with his own power than with the concept of Software Freedom.
As an armchair champion of Free Software, I have to disagree with the GFDL. However, such disagreement is apparently enough to get one kicked off the GNU project.
One cannot be a proponent of Free Software without also being a proponent of Free Speech. The former stems from the latter. Since RMS does not support the latter as evidenced by his actions, he cannot truthfully be a proponent of the former.
best of a bad situation? I can't see schools all jumping up at once to donate - so they'll be back on the micro$oft wagon...
has anyone else noticed that Utah's DMV web site has been acting strange lately?
see for your self
Yeah right. That's why my Windows computer keeps crashing, no doubt. Best software my ass. Considering the excellent security record of Microsoft and the fact they've been found guilty of antitrust, I'm fairly accurate when I say that it's not the quality of their software that has won them customers. It's marketing.
Microsoft has good products, but my beef with MS is the propensity for proprietary software/API's/data.
The computing world would be so much better if all software - be it commercial, free or otherwise was based on agreed upon standards.
...yup...
Assemble 2pm at Malet Street, Central London (nearest tubes: Goodge Street, Russell Square and Euston/Euston Sq). March to Trafalgar Square where a statue of George Bush will be pulled down. This event will continue until 7pm to allow for people coming from work.
Route: Malet St - Russell Square - Southampton Row - Kingsway - Aldwych - Waterloo Bridge - York Road - Westminster Bridge - Parliament Square - Whitehall - Trafalgar Square.
If there is only one STOP BU$H event that you can make - this is the one.
for more info visit http://www.stopwar.org.uk/
If you can't make it... participate in the Virtual March - organised by OurWorldOurSay
Well not my computer, I don't use Windows. But the point is that it should be impossible for a normal unprivileged user to crash a computer during very day use, or rather that should be the goal of all desktops. Microsoft is improving, and although we no longer get blue screens, individual apps are still quite crash-prone (such as explorer.exe).
There is no creator or supreme being(s), moron. Pull your head out of the sand, quit believing fairy tales and grow up.