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Bluetooth SIG Attacks Linux Bluetooth List
Karma Sucks writes "As reported in the latest free edition of LWN the Bluetooth Qualification Administrator has demanded that the Linux BlueZ project take down the highly-useful Bluetooth hardware compatibility list for Linux with the intimation that 'As neither of these products have been qualified using Linux it is illegal to make them available for public use'. This was apparently done at the request of a registered member of the Bluetooth SIG. Anyone know who this member was?"
Technocrat. Not a lot of users, though.
Not a lot of stories either for that matter (still in my aggregator though).
I just checked out technocrat, and it just seems like a poor copy of slashdot. It is kind of funny how most of the stories don't have any posts. Maybe all of the trolls here that just want to get first post could move to that site.
I also wasn't that impressed with the quality of the comments on digg.com. The site's news is okay sometimes, but I like the mix on slashdot, which is why I read this site.
However, for quality entertainment, I like www.i-am-bored.com
Where else can you see urban ninja, or a semi 'drifting' for three minutes, or play random flash games. I guess this is off-topic, but I don't really understand why the site we're supposed to be talking about didn't just comply, get certified and then re-display the list.
I got in trouble at work last week for telling someone(employee) to download openoffice.org when office 2k3 wasn't working right. So, the next day, I got a call from the boss when I was out at a clients, and he was like "We are not a linux shop, we are not an openoffice shop, we are not an open source shop. Talk to you later" And I was thinking, oh shit.
And the next day, a client was there, and he just shouts out, hey martin, what do you think of Microsoft. And I shouted back "I love Microsoft."
Now, the guys here, they don't really like MS. Their products cause of a great deal of grief, AT the same time though, they keep us in business. They like linux, and think it has their place. But, they don't want to support it. Plus Im the resident "linux" guy. As soon as I got there they put me in charge of the dns server. Which has been the most reliable machine there, running redhat 7.3.