I am wondering whether a criticial mass of National Operating Systems could also make the free world more solid and give attention to the desktop. As the French military I would create my own operating system rather than to be dependent on a foreign software that can be broken by security holes.
Well, the internet is designed to avoid political intervention. So the logical next step is to further decentralise the net and promote wireless mesh networks.
And the worst argument of it all:
"Known as Conficker, it quickly infected more than 12 million computers, ravaging everything from the computer system at a surgical ward in England to the computer networks of the French military."
So lets abandon the free net because of Microsoft's security holes. Great idea.
In my opinion the French military should rather develop its own national operating system.
How great that the Robin Hoods of the copyright industry are stealing back. Schweden is part of the European Union. And someone sent me per mail this invitation here to an open conference in the European Parliament, feel free to join and/or spread:
Who wants to control the internet ?
The Greens in the European Parliament have the pleasure to invite you to a conference on internet policy concerning the Telecom package and the Medina report.
The European Parliament is about to take very important decisions that will affect the every day use of the internet by europeans : the telecom package will be adopted in second reading in April, and the Medina report on copyright recommends a very restrictive vision of the web. What is at stake is no less than net neutrality : will MEPs allow discrimination on the internet ?
Net neutrality means that the network should be neutral and can be only be managed for technical or security reasons. Some companies dream of being able to manipulate access in order to restrict or give preference to certain services and websites, so as to block access to their competitor's services. They want to use net management as a tool against competition. This debate will have a global impact since the new US administration is expected to take crucial decisions on this issue over the next year.
This hearing aims at revealing what is really at stake behind the complexity of several European Directives up for consideration by the European Parliament in the coming weeks.
Please join us for this important and informative conference.
Rebecca Harms, Helga Trüppel, Eva Lichtenberger, David Hammerstein
Members of the Parliament 's Green/Efa Group
Draft Programme
Who wants to control the internet ? A conference organized by the Greens/Efa in the European Parliament to look into how the Medina report and the Telecom package can affect the internet
18 February 2009 16.30-18.30 Room 1G2 Interpretation : EN-FR-DE-Nl
Academic speaker Dr.Monica Horten, Communications and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster (Website: http://www.iptegrity.com/ )
Free Software Alix Cazenave, APRIL (Associaton for the promotion of Libre Software)
Industry speakers Angelique Broux, IBM You Tube Benjamin Bayard, French Data Network (French internet provider)
Registration is free but mandatory as to be allowed access to the European Parliament Please send you full name, birthdate and address to Laurence.vandewalle@europarl.europa.eu
The interesting aspect here is the domino effect and the platform building. If one government does it more governments will follow. Microsoft is aware of that. I can also point you to the European Software Strategy speech of Reding:
These advantages are ones that give Europe its window of opportunity to develop a leadership position in software. But this window is small and it will soon be closed if we don't act. I can illustrate this already. Even if 70% of open source developers are European, 90% of the economic benefits are being won by US companies. My view is: If we have the brains, we should also get the gains! That is why we need a European Strategy for Software.
Our economies are all mixed economies, some goods are provided by the government, some goods by diverse private players. US military spending is a perfect example where the public takes a strong role.
Socialism relates to control/ownership of production facility, so in a radical socialist nation all production is a public monopoly.
Actually economists were unable to explain what happened during the last 10-15 years.
FF can gain market share despite tying. If you have two runners and one person starts at 50meter and another at 75meter an olympic medal winner will still beat me when I start from the 50 position. However he will have to run 25m more.
IE is what you get anyway when you don't take a choice.
Would you enter an airplane if the software was not secure. In the aii traffic industry very high standards are applied to software development and thus stability and security. Microsoft can do the same.
These guys abuse a problem but they also raise awareness for a security problem Microsoft has put into existance through its operating system software. This company should pay and offer its customer to remove the worm for them and compensate them for all the costs caused by their defect software. The guys just exploited the weakness.
Though Microsoft offered a patch I don't remember that Microsoft actively informed its customers about the defects of its software and apologised to me or that my hardware vendor recalled the hardware.
McGann is the lobbyist of EICTA. You don't expect members of the administration to work for a lobby organisation. The question is who defines what they do. And here ENISA does mostly awareness raising efforts for imaginative audiences.
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In the military automated updates are a security risk.
The Russian operating system will be based on RedHat.
Learning curve ahead: freifunk.net
They would simply take an existing Linux distribution and review the code for security issues.
For the military security is critical. You don't want your enemy fire or make unusable your systems.
I am wondering whether a criticial mass of National Operating Systems could also make the free world more solid and give attention to the desktop. As the French military I would create my own operating system rather than to be dependent on a foreign software that can be broken by security holes.
Well, the internet is designed to avoid political intervention. So the logical next step is to further decentralise the net and promote wireless mesh networks.
And the worst argument of it all:
So lets abandon the free net because of Microsoft's security holes. Great idea.
In my opinion the French military should rather develop its own national operating system.
How great that the Robin Hoods of the copyright industry are stealing back. Schweden is part of the European Union. And someone sent me per mail this invitation here to an open conference in the European Parliament, feel free to join and/or spread:
The interesting aspect here is the domino effect and the platform building. If one government does it more governments will follow. Microsoft is aware of that. I can also point you to the European Software Strategy speech of Reding:
Two years ago I used Towers of Goo on Wine and it worked just fine.
That is an example how Microsoft gets the blame for the policy of the OEMs to treat their customers badly.
The haptic experience? That works for me. Paying for music downloads? No. Paying for CDs. Yes. It is really a great strategy for Microsoft.
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Look, this company is still very profitable, so it can experiment a lot.
Yes, because they think you are a homosexual.
I guess he meant that the retailers protest against open source.
Ballmer is a great visionary, whatever he talks makes a whole lot of sense. He is more consumer-focussed than Gates.
When will windows 7 be released? They will sell Vista in Win7 boxes.
It could well be that the company will be done by then. I am just on extrapolation concerning financial market trends.
Our economies are all mixed economies, some goods are provided by the government, some goods by diverse private players. US military spending is a perfect example where the public takes a strong role.
Socialism relates to control/ownership of production facility, so in a radical socialist nation all production is a public monopoly.
Actually economists were unable to explain what happened during the last 10-15 years.
FF can gain market share despite tying. If you have two runners and one person starts at 50meter and another at 75meter an olympic medal winner will still beat me when I start from the 50 position. However he will have to run 25m more.
IE is what you get anyway when you don't take a choice.
Would you enter an airplane if the software was not secure. In the aii traffic industry very high standards are applied to software development and thus stability and security. Microsoft can do the same.
No, you have actually no clue about the dividing line between socialism and other systems.
These guys abuse a problem but they also raise awareness for a security problem Microsoft has put into existance through its operating system software. This company should pay and offer its customer to remove the worm for them and compensate them for all the costs caused by their defect software. The guys just exploited the weakness.
Though Microsoft offered a patch I don't remember that Microsoft actively informed its customers about the defects of its software and apologised to me or that my hardware vendor recalled the hardware.
You don't know Enisa. But I do know for whom Ebert works for.
McGann is the lobbyist of EICTA. You don't expect members of the administration to work for a lobby organisation. The question is who defines what they do. And here ENISA does mostly awareness raising efforts for imaginative audiences.
http://www.enisa.europa.eu/pages/05_01.htm
The point is not what ENISA is but what it is not! Ask European IT security experts what they think about ENISA and their consultant puppets.