OSDL CEO: Microsoft Has to Accept Linux

PenguinCandidate writes "The OSDL's Stuart Cohen has been in the news lately following a clandestine meeting with Microsoft about a dubiously independent TCO study; a study that has since been rejected by the OSDL. The idea of an independent Windows/Linux TCO comparison may be dead, but did Cohen have an additional card up his sleeve? In this interview, Cohen states that while he "awaits the reply from MS's Martin Taylor on the results of his internal investigation" into how an off-the-record meeting became public, he will continue to promote his belief that MS will eventually have to accept Linux as customer demand increases."

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Agreed. I posted this one and it was rejected

[geomon]

Chimpanzee Genome Holds Clues To Humanity

The Miami Hearld is reporting the announcement today that researchers have completed a map of the chimpanzee genome. Work will begin in earnest to compare the results of this work with results from the 2001 completion of the human genome. Researchers caution, however, that specific genetic markers that identify humans from their primate counterparts will be difficult. Eric Lander of the Broad Institute comments "But it's not trivial to be able to say, 'Here is an inventory of the most important differences, and now go at it and figure out which of these differences contain the signatures of what is distinctively human.'" Chimpanzees genetic code is approximately 99 percent identical to humans.

Considering the implications that this work could have on medicine if they can identify which portions are human (i.e., those that make humans susceptable to AIDS and Alzheimer's - diseases that do not affect chimps), I would have thought that this story would have been good enough for posting.

But hey, why not another post in the Linux/Microsoft wars. It gets the flames going.

Re:Y'know what's curious?

[HermanAB]

What I find totally astonishing is that the USA is unable to air drop 200,000 MREs a day into New Orleans and surrounding area. That is what is needed to keep the people alive and they are absolutely unable to do it. People are dying on the sidewalks, dying in the hospitals, dying in the highrise buildings, from a lack of food and water. Sending in more guard troops to stand around and look at the water is useless, they have to air drop supplies and the almighty USA simply can't do it...