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Japanese Government to Move to OSS
An anonymous reader writes "Linuxworld has up an article on the Japanese government's plan to reduce its reliance on a single IT vendor by moving to open source software. 'Oracle, NEC, IBM, HP, Hitachi and Dell are among 10 IT equipment and software vendors that are forming a consortium to develop and sell Linux-based servers and computers for the Japanese market. The move by the vendors to collaborate on Linux in Japan comes from a edict from the country's government to make Linux and open source a priority for all IT procurements, starting this July.' The government has said explicitly it wants to decrease its reliance on Microsoft as a server operating system platform."
My lady took "English as a Second Language" - or so she thought. Instead she wound up taking Engrish as a Second Rangruage with Doctah Kah. (Khan, I think.) She has a nearly unparalleled ability to mock asians as a result. But the point is that it's 100% accurate. The stories of her class are hilarious. The woman would say "Now, this very important! Very important, you write down. Rtkhgrilghweghdljgwelfifiq2h;fhq!" meaning that she would lapse unto utter unintelligibility while everyone in the class exchanged troubled looks.
Some racial stereotypes were deliberately and inaccurately started to discredit certain races, like calling Mexicans lazy for example. The reality (as anyone who's ever run a field crew or a construction project will tell you) they will typically work twice as fucking hard as anyone else. In Mexico, you need a nap in the afternoon, because it's too hot to move. And we're talking about people who you will regularly see out picking grapes in the sun wearing a hooded sweatshirt because it's too cold. But on the other hand, I live in a place with a lot of seasonal migrant labor and was raised in a place with even more, and about nine times out of ten if I'm behind some slow-ass who's all over the road driving slow as fuck, they're a Mexican. And you can take that one home with you and frame it.
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"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Copyrights are protected internationally by the Berne Convention and other treaties...
Yes, well, I would also encourage Japan, and others, to take the same loose stance with the Berne Convention as the US takes with the Geneva Convention. They can make something up and declare MS to be an "enemy of the people" or some such thing. That should work. After all, if we allow governments to unilaterally ignore these treaties, as some so blatantly do, then to me, we have effectively nullified the treaty, and thus should force a renegotiation. And the Berne Convention should be nullified anyway. It is a business deal, a crooked one at that, a treaty amongst pirates with absolutely no input from those being subject to its conditions, and should be open to much more scrutiny than something that is supposed to protect actual human rights. The Geneva Convention is supposed to protect people from the government. The Berne Convention merely protects corporations from the people. It is virtually a unilateral dictate from the US. They could conceivably use nuclear weapons to protect copyright. And I wouldn't put it past them, when I consider the massive profits at stake. Especially if Li'l Miss Hollywood was to be elected.
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