I think that if the government were to adopt opensource software, that this would lead to a lot of people trying to contaminate the code with built-in backdoors.
I have a vague memory of a small public space in Moscow where the government lets anyone sign up to voice their opinions and spread dissent. Most people don't use it, and those who do, are generally ignored. I'm not sure how it worked, but I think it had something to do with allowing complete freaks to use the place for an hour, then let more moderate/reasoned voices use it. The moderate/reasoned voices were superficially lumped together with the freaks there and seemed to lose credibility from this.
In other words: they accomplished their goal of nuetralizing dissent. Maybe colleges and the government learned from this experiment.
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I remove all toolbars and the status bar from oowriter. I then setup the ADD tool in compiz fusion to black out all but the active window. This works for me.
I have a stripped down install of Ubuntu Gutsy. With mplayer and firefox/mozilla mplayer plugin, I am listening to BBC streams right now. What, exactly, is the problem?
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I think that if the government were to adopt opensource software, that this would lead to a lot of people trying to contaminate the code with built-in backdoors.
A week ago, they wanted to expand domestic internet surveillance, now the CIA says that a war is already going on. Nice one, Bush.
In other words: they accomplished their goal of nuetralizing dissent. Maybe colleges and the government learned from this experiment.
I remove all toolbars and the status bar from oowriter. I then setup the ADD tool in compiz fusion to black out all but the active window. This works for me.
I have a stripped down install of Ubuntu Gutsy. With mplayer and firefox/mozilla mplayer plugin, I am listening to BBC streams right now. What, exactly, is the problem?