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  1. Re: FSF distro on Stallman On Unity Dash: Canonical Will Have To Give Users' Data To Governments · · Score: 1

    The FSF also has/had its own Debian/Ubuntu-derived distro, gNewSense (basically, Debian without anything the FSF considers non-free, I think).

  2. Re: Downloadable Dive Into Python on Foundations of Python Network Programming · · Score: 1

    90% of the book was written and freely available on his site before APress contracted him... ;-)

  3. Re:'a mere 6 lines'? on Dive Into Python · · Score: 2, Funny

    To stay on-topic, a Brainfuck interpreter written in Python:
    http://p-nand-q.com/humor/programming_lan guages/br ainfuck/bf-py.txt :-)

  4. Re:Great browser, but... on A Look at the Newly Released Mozilla Firefox 0.9 · · Score: 1

    Then you must be doing something wrong. It doesn't work like MFC, but you can rearrange all the buttons, the menu, the bookmarks, the throbber, the URL box, ...

    Also, if you want to save even more space, you might want to look for a different skin.

  5. Re:Great browser, but... on A Look at the Newly Released Mozilla Firefox 0.9 · · Score: 1

    Just right-click on a free area of the menu bar or any of the other toolbars & choose "customize".

    You can rearrange everything there.

  6. Re:OD2 windows only? on Oxfam Launches Music Download Service · · Score: 1

    There is WMP for the Mac too, but both of them are not available for Linux, BeOS, etc.
    iTMS & OD2 both use consumer-hostile technologies, while there are other, consumer-friendly, possibilities to protect music against illegal copying.

    DRM technologies like MS DRM, PlayFair, Key2Audio, etc. are useful for companies that want to sell you a different copy of the same song/album for every music device you own (CD player, PC, iPod, ...).

    Watermarking technologies are stronger than WMA or iTunes DRM but they don't restrict fair use (you can burn CDs, transcode, make backups, play it on your "exotic" OS, ...).

  7. Re:GTK is out, then? on Novell Desktop To Standardize On Qt [updated] · · Score: 1

    Qt is not GPL for Windows & several other platforms.

  8. Re:RPC vulnerability returns. AGAIN!!! on Bill Gates: Windows Patched Faster than Linux · · Score: 1

    The notification was sent 10 days ago. So much for 24 hour patches.

    Maybe Microsoft introduced a new working week:
    they now work 4 days a week, 3 hours a day... ;-)

  9. Re:Opera is OSS on Microsoft Plans IE Changes Due to Plugin Patent · · Score: 2, Informative

    This patent is not (yet) valid in the EU.
    And I hope it never will...!

  10. Re:The Economist on The Economist Contrasts American, European Patent Approaches · · Score: 1
    I hope you are not implying that the US government was in any way supporting Germany's war effort. While it is true that American companies were originally supporting both the UK and Germany, that is through no fault of the Americans; it is merely a side effect of a free capitalist economy.
    Even in the "free capitalist" US you can't export weapons without export licenses from the government.
  11. Re:The Economist on The Economist Contrasts American, European Patent Approaches · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Russians were forced into the war against their will, whereas the Americans were there voluntarily.

    I remember something from history class called "Pearl Harbour"...

    In the beginning of WW II the USA was sponsoring both the UK & Germany, selling weapons, machines, food, etc. to both sides.

  12. Re:New processors on Guido van Rossum Interviewed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Python already works on 64-bit systems.