And sometimes they do useful things. Like Agnula, (www.agnula.org). It looks like teh (?) EU has an opinion about which software we should use. As a government they can't support or fight a company, and all they have is the legal system. I think the EU is using theirs to stimulate healthy competition, and that would automatically mean trouble for a company like microsoft.
The realisation of the internal market implies the elimination of restrictions to free circulation and of distortions in competition, while creating an environment which is favourable to innovation and investment.
This looks like it could be the end of Microsoft in the EU. Or am i getting my hopes up?
I'm afraid that in this case there is not much you can do. It's in the hands of our politicians, now.
We should be voting for politicians who believe in OSS. That's the only way to protect it.
Now this is really short-sighted. The internet is an international medium, and by regulating spam on the country level you'll never be able to stop it. It might help a bit for some american users, but the rest of the 'net still has to suffer. Spam should be fought at a different level. Maybe at the mail-client, maybe at the isp, maybe somewhere else in the mail-systems we use today. But ALWAYS FROM WITHIN THE COMPUTERSYSTEM, BE IT SOFTWARE OR HARDWARE. Or else the 'net will become a playtoy of politics instead of the mass-medium it is today. Tax is by it's nature a political thing.
Don't regulate the 'net, let the community take care of that.
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Does "terrabit" mean that it will be made of pieces of the earth?
And sometimes they do useful things. Like Agnula, (www.agnula.org). It looks like teh (?) EU has an opinion about which software we should use. As a government they can't support or fight a company, and all they have is the legal system. I think the EU is using theirs to stimulate healthy competition, and that would automatically mean trouble for a company like microsoft.
This looks like it could be the end of Microsoft in the EU. Or am i getting my hopes up?
The Almigty Yen / Dollar, what else?
I'm afraid that in this case there is not much you can do. It's in the hands of our politicians, now.
We should be voting for politicians who believe in OSS. That's the only way to protect it.
neither is your comment, nor the article itself. geddit?
this is the lamest comment I have seen on slashdot in a long time... and that is saying something.
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what kind of plugin do i need to run linux on that?
Now this is really short-sighted. The internet is an international medium, and by regulating spam on the country level you'll never be able to stop it. It might help a bit for some american users, but the rest of the 'net still has to suffer. Spam should be fought at a different level. Maybe at the mail-client, maybe at the isp, maybe somewhere else in the mail-systems we use today. But ALWAYS FROM WITHIN THE COMPUTERSYSTEM, BE IT SOFTWARE OR HARDWARE. Or else the 'net will become a playtoy of politics instead of the mass-medium it is today. Tax is by it's nature a political thing.
Don't regulate the 'net, let the community take care of that.