User: A non-mouse Cow Herd

this will be funny

On: Linux to be Official OS of People's Republic of China

When they realize that the same people who brought them linux want to bring strong crypto to all their dissidents.

Or when they understand that the free in free software is speach.

It's sad that linux will be used as a tool of oppression (I'd much rather that my dossier of anti government activities was stored on a windows box) but once you GPL your code you don't get to say who can use it.

It is a very logical move for the for the PRC government, not because it is produced communally (which is just good PR fluff), but:
1) It is not a US product, unlike most other mainstream OS's
2) they have been repeatedly accused of pirating vast numbers of US software products. Being able to reasonably deny this might give them a better position in trade negotiations
3) they can customize it to their needs.

Now the question is, will we see patches for MySQL to allow it to maintian personal files (in unicode), photos and fingerprints for about a billion people. Maybe modified slash code ?

LIMP!

On: Linux on a Magazine Cover?

The Linux image montage project
http://linux.remotepoint.com/

I'm not sure how the limp people feel about
it getting used directly on a cover, but I
imagine a nice E theme with one of the LIMP
pre-release images open in a Mozilla window, a
Gimp, and a few other things up.

The great thing about LIMP is that it conveys
how all the various independant (Linus's kernel,
BSD and GNU utilities, the contribution of the
verious hardware and commercial distro vendors)
contribute to the whole, which is bigger than
the sum of it's parts.

expire your own cookies, whenever you want

On: Cookies, Ad Banners, and Privacy

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