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  1. Cool! Just give me full credit on UK Government dropping Key Escrow? · · Score: 1

    I can spell! I might develop Internet systems daytime (and night of course) but my degree is in English.

    Yeah. That's why I dig that vibe.

  2. Oh, yeah? on UK Government dropping Key Escrow? · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I like that last quote. Good for a sig as well.

  3. What UK residents can do on UK Government dropping Key Escrow? · · Score: 1

    Stand is a good thing, and (thus far) my participation has placed no severe demands on my time. I urge UK readers to join it.

    http://www.stand.org.uk/

    Chris

  4. Mongrels? on GNOME 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I am English. We are a mongrel race :-)
    Some of my ancestors are French. (Hey we know
    what most od /. thinks of them)

    But I am English. Go figure.

  5. 1999 - :-) on GNOME 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Everything from these first few months says 1999 could change the world.

    Time to stop arguing.

    Time to make it.

    Time KDE and Gnome got that low level compatibility and at least minimal interoperability.

    Then the best one will win. Then we will know which was best.

    Good luck to all.

  6. No Surprise on Microsoft's COOL · · Score: 1

    IT Was rumoured on these very pages (I think) a year ago that MS had a Java Killer waiting in the wings.

    Only Microsoft Seem to have forgotten that Java got where it is because it is Heterogenous.

    It is the end of the line for MS. Maybe its time we all placed our predictions for various Free Software Futures.

    i.e. Linux Dominant OS by...
    MS Laughed at by PHBs...
    MS Write Applications for Linux by...
    etc.

    Any takers.

  7. GPL on DOJ considering source-licensing punishment · · Score: 1

    If the source code is released I am going to hack a PERL Script to diff the MS Source Code and GPLed apps and make it freely available.

    I'm going to encourage licensees to use it, so they can try and get their licensing fee back when it is revealed they had to pay for a GPLed product and everyone else...

    I am sure that many overworked MS programmers, under pressure may have cribbed little bits of GPLed code to save time, safe in the knowledge that no one will ever know their secret.

    Only way to be sure would be to check :-)

    What d'you think???

  8. Where the man got his Apache figures. on Does Open Source Fail the Acid Test? · · Score: 1

    I think the MS page is Slashdotted. :-)
    Or maybe their scripting needs debugging...

    Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01f4'

    Variable is undefined: 'URL2Code'

    /NTServer/inc/global.inc, line 30

  9. Broken on Why Netscape shows ? instead of ' · · Score: 1

    The story of OSS, always new versions to fix deliberate windows incompatibilities.

    New filesystems, new encrypted passwords, new efforts to block *nix dns servers, incompatible fonts, office 97 file formats.

    Linux would be less a threat to MS if they acted like part of the community instead of trying to grind it into the mud methinks.