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Microsoft Accepts Most EU Demands, But Not Over Source
JoeGi writes "Microsoft sent a letter to EU regulators Monday accepting 20 out of the Commission's 26 demands. According to BetaNews, 'The remaining stumbling block to full compliance is source code licensing' as Microsoft is refusing access to open source projects. Microsoft officials told BetaNews they are trying 'to find a way that companies can implement these technologies in code that would get distributed with open source products, but the source code wouldn't be published itself.'"
...you know like put out the next IE7...
Whoa... M$ puts out? Thats hawt.
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Remember Sherman's march to the sea?
Actually, you really start digging into it, and the post-TOS Federation starts looking pretty bad.
Go through everything starting with TNG, and the Federation shows every sign of being a totalitarian communist society... it looks like Paradise because we follow the elite military establishment around, but there seems no particular reason to believe that mere mortals are living anywhere near as well as the technology ought to be letting them live. You can find isolated indications to the contrary but the overwhelming body of evidence points in that direction; no useful money (note in DS9 how everything has to be done with latinum, a sign of a seriously broken money system; imagine if we used actual, physical gold every day), no privately and lawfully owned spaceships, Federation access to everything you do and limited/non-existant delineation of powers between lesser governments (i.e., federal/state/county/township etc), non-existant separation of military and government, no apparent private companies within the Federation (external to, yes, but inside everything seems to be Federation owned), all interstellar communication controlled by the Federation, all news controlled by the Federation, and exactly the kind of shoddy engineering that due to politics almost ignores safety entirely that history teaches us to expect from such regimes that don't need to care about the opinions of its members. Not to mention the new innovation of putting families aboard your flagship war machine. (Yes, Starfleet claims to not be a military organization, but when push comes to shove, who does the shooting?)
This is one of the reasons I've stopped watching Star Trek; while I still like Captain Picard, and Data's cool, I'm rooting against the "good" guys as often as not. Example: I root for the Maquis (sp) whenever they come up (some humans with actual guts), and despite the writer's best efforts to demonize the Ferengi, I'd rather live in Ferengi controlled space than in the Federation. I bet the average Ferengi lives better in their free-market society than the average Federation citizen lives.
(People keep talking about Star Trek sequels set after TNG. As far as I'm concerned, based on history and the last hundred years, there are only two plausible ways forward: Either the Fed reforms after Voyager/DS9 and goes back to a free market economy, with the corresponding jump start in real innovation again (note how stagnant tech is in the TNG era), or about 25 years after the end of DS9, the Feds get brutally steamrolled after picking a fight with the capitalistic Ferengis, who after reforming their government and society a bit, burst forward in technology and industrial might. As an outside possibility, a capitalistic enclave of humans could take over the Feds forcibly. Either way, if such a sequel came out and the Fed was the same old pansy-ass Communist utopia wanna-be, I don't think I could ever root for the "heros", no matter what the premise. It may sound abstract, but it's really the little things that make or break attachments to characters and shows. (I'm not saying Capitalism is perfect, I'm just saying that historically, Communist-style governments can't stand up to them, unless they become them. I guess you could say it's more than I couldn't get into the Fed staying communist than I want to see capitalism per se.))
A sibling to this post calls the show propoganda, in jest; there may be more truth to that charge than intended.
WHAT ARE ADS DOING IN THE FRESHMEAT LINKS!!?!?!
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/. editors panel explain this, pronto. What sleazy new low is this?
I'm not usually one to complain loudly, having gotten used to having to use all the latest tools to avoid the commercialisation of the internet. But seriously. What the F*ck! I saw the following link in slashdot's Freshmeat sidebar, titled 'ADV: Gimme Shelter':
[http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;11713776;1046930
This is disgusting. I expect sidebars titled with a well-known domain to be -actually pointing to links on that domain-, not TROJANED with ads.
Someone on the
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