you aren't allowed to fire anybody unless they've had three written warnings, written warnings can only be issued after a hearing where the employee has the right to council...
This may sound good and make people who already have jobs difficult to fire. However, the devastating side effect is higher unemployment, especially among the youth and inexperienced. It makes it much riskier to hire if there are high hurdles for firing. Consider that an incompetent employee could do a lot of damage during 3 warnings while costing the employer a paycheck -- and a slick lawyer could keep them at the job. Hiring is critical for a developing economy which have large numbers of young and undereducated people. Policies like this (which are prevalent in third world countries), while well meaning, unfortunately contribute to a country's third world status.
This is an interesting article which looks behind some of the stories and myths behind the development of QWERTY and Dvorak. Also, nowhere in the article is there a critique of the Dvorak layout (claims that it reduces strain or seems to be a better layout are left standing.)
Some interesting points:
Apparently typing contests were common at the end of the 1800's and there were several different competing typewriter keyboard layouts. QWERTY won out and manufactures with competing with different designs quickly moved to QWERTY.
The original source for the famous US Navy study (which is frequently paraded which "proves" that typists can learn Dvorak with little training and type much faster) apparently doesn't exist at "the Navy Library, the Martin Luther King Library, the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the National Technical Communication Service." However, the author was able to track down a copy of the study from "an organization called Dvorak International, headquartered in the attic of a farmhouse in Vermont." From the article "The report does not list the authors. The report's foreword states that two prior experiments had been conducted but that 'the first two groups were not truly fair tests.'" According to the study "adjustments were made in the test procedure to 'remove psychological impediments to superior performance.'" Further, according to the study, the so-called typists were poor at typing (below 30 WPM, below Navy standards). Also, the study was conducted by no other than Lieut. Com. August Dvorak (the inventor of Dvorak!).
There were several controlled, well conducted studies around the world which showed that retraining QWERTY typists in Dvorak resulted in little change in typing speed.
I get why this article is on Slashdot (it's kind of cool), but why would IBM pay employees to work on this type of thing? It's impractical for several reasons...
Security & practicality:
You must install an add-in to use it. You want to your encrypted calendar with some friends. You tell them "uhh, just install this arbitrary XPI." No thanks.
No mention on how to securely transfer the private key to your friends. Email?
From your browser, the add-in spawns a shell to run a Perl script which passes arbitrary content to gpg. Security much?
Google:
This component is dependent on Google not changing their page. How would you and your friends like to recompile each time Google changes their page?
Who are you trying to protect your data from anyway? Google? They could change their page to by-pass your encryption and intercept new events as you post them. If you trust Google not to do that, what's the point? Just mark the entry as private and share it as appropriate...
It goes against Google's business. Okay if just a handful of users encrypt their events, no problem. However, displaying a bunch of base64 encoded garbage messes up Google's ads. Which, you know, is virtually their entire source of revenue. In the unlikely event that this technique became popular, Google would be forced to shut it down.
Google might shut it down anyway. It's a calendar. It's not for posting arbitrary base64 encoded data. If many users use Google calender for posting arbitrary binary data, calendar would quickly become a lawless file trading platform (think usenet) and create a performance, storage, and/or legal mess.
The counterfeit item itself is typically exactly the same when we are talking about electronics. The counterfeit network equipment had inferior build quality, duplicate MAC addresses (which can bring down a network) and caused at least one fire. The article describes looking for "dirty soldering" to identify counterfeit boards. No doubt IP was stolen (board design, software, etc), however the idea that the counterfeit items are exactly the same is false.
I think that the problem with Open Office is that Microsoft Office has no real competition, hence it can afford to ignore everybody else.
This is something I hear a lot. Why does "Microsoft Office has no real competition" have anything to do with "the problem with Open Office". You identified some actual problems with Open Office: "[lack of] dictionaries, grammar tools, paper formatting and tool integration to support every country in every region of the world," which, I might point out, that some of the non-OO alternatives solve handily.
Speaking of "no real competition":
Some people will say "but what about Open Office", but the problem is that while it may be free, there is no incentive for anybody to develop program other than for the simple joy of it.
You're very dismissive of Open Office, but there are plenty of people here who will say that it's good enough for them.
The problem is that the commercial alternatives to Microsoft Office have all but died out (Word Perfect , etc..)
This is clearly wrong. Word Perfect, after many years of neglect and changing hands several times has retained Word Perfect diehards (like Lawyers) and gained market share through OEM bundling. You can buy Corel WordPerfect Office X3 now for $280 or a $150 upgrade. It's not important to all OpenOffice users, but based on my experience with the OEM version of WP which came with my laptop, WordPerfect is faster and more compatible than OO. I see that the business edition has many more essential Office features (like an Outlook replacement).
Unfortunately the only company that is any position to do this is Apple...
I think I agree with your point. Vista, especially Home Premium, has a lot more value than the XP editions, home, professional (for home users), tablet, or MCE for about the same price. Of course, Vista doesn't add much value if it doesn't work well for people or if users find that the new interface is confusing. I think Vista is suffering from the "new Windows" syndrome (lack of drivers and fine-tuning the new features) which has affected almost consumer Microsoft operating systems since DOS 3.0. Also, Vista has had some true marketing blunders (especially concerning how the different editions are marketed and possibly the number of editions).
if you take out the Ultimate Edition (which is the equivalent of Media Center of XP, which was not available retail, only OEM).
Actually, Home Premium is the equivalent of Windows Media Center and Tablet PC edition combined. Ultimate is Premium + Business (log on to domains, remote desktop, Fax) + Enterprise (encrypt whole drive, Services for Unix).
While we might have been able to make changes in some Windows APIs to block these attacks, doing so could break how the 3rd party applications intended those protocol handlers to function. As a result, we recommend that the owners of the applications themselves address the potential issues since they understand their code the best. For example, application protocol handler authors must take special care to validate every argument which is passed in on the command line.
The parameter handling is not being modified to prevent applications from receiving potentially malformed URLs as command line parameters. It remains the responsibility of the applications which handle URLs to properly parse their own command line parameters and to set up the applications protocol handler in a way that does not cause the application to be a vector of attack (for example, 'firefox.exe "%1"' might be a problem). The flaw that is being fixed has to do with improper handling of some protocols (http, mailto) on XP/2003 with IE7 installed, which has nothing to do with custom protocol handlers.
The MSRC post was meant to clarify the issue. Sadly, it seems that the substance of the post is ignored and misinformation prevails.
As any good netizen, she wants to contribute.. So while she may very well have downloaded quite a bit.. She was more than happy to share what she had (considering the neglegable cost to her - just setup time).
That's nice that you can read her mind like that. To the rest of us, she lied and continues to lie and say that she never has even heard of Kazaa, much less downloaded music from it. Her so-called defense left the jury saying, "Oh my God, you got to be kidding."
Here's my favorite: Her MySpace username is tereastarr (which, incidentally does not mention the case). The account used to upload music on Kazaa? tereastarr@kazaa.
Since this was a civil case, the fine should be only enough to promote equity rather than be punitive in nature.
The law defines punitive damages for copyright infringement in civil cases. According to copyright law, statuary damages can be up to $150k per work. Quoth the law:
In a case where the copyright owner sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that infringement was committed willfully, the court in its discretion may increase the award of statutory damages to a sum of not more than $150,000.
We have strong protection for copyrights because we believe in the ability for people to write or create books, software, art, movies, music, or other "soft" art for a living. Without copyright, these things would be just hobbies. Even free software depends on strong copyright protection. Without the protection of GPL and copyright protection, GNU and Linux and other GPL software would not have the following and developer involvement and attract billions of dollars from by IBM, Sun and Google as they do today. The proof of this is BSD ("is dying") software, which has much trouble attracting developers, investors and users.
I don't mean to troll, but truly, what's the big problem? Don't distribute stuff that doesn't belong to you unless the person who owns it says it's okay. Find a better hobby and you won't get sued!
I understand that point. $4000 seems a little steep. And you can bet they didn't offer to send a link on how to do it for free to their customers.
Yes, Microsoft explains how to do it for free. Just search for "DST" on Microsoft's support site, click on the "best bet". Follow the wizard (selecting Windows 2000) and you'll come to this page for IT administrators (with guidance and scripts for deploying across an enterprise along with guidance and updates for other products such as Exchange and Windows Mobile) or this page for home users. Both are free. The pricey hotfix is for administrators who want a out-of-box supported non-security-related update for a 7 (going on 8) year old OS.
... [Microsoft] charged $4000 for a time zone update for Windows 2000. A server OS. When you can do it for free if you know how. Debian should charge NZers $4000 Canadian (OUCH!), then they would be respected.
The hotfix is for an operating system which is 7 years old! Microsoft still releases free security updates for Win2k, but has a maintenance plan for non-security hotfixes. Unlike Debian, whose stable release in 2000 (Debian 2.2 or "potato", released 8 months after Windows 2k) receives no updates, security or otherwise, nor does the release after it (Debian 3.0 "woody"). Additionally, the bug for the 2005 stable release (Debian 3.1 Sarge) does not have a NZ DST fix yet. The article concerns freshly baked Debian 4.0 "etch" (released 2007) which is the only "stable" Debian which has this NZ DST fix. Apparently the price of free updates for Debian "stable" is an upgrade treadmill!
Of course you can fix the timezone data for Win2k and WinNT for free (try even finding guidance for manually DST tables on systems 7+ years old for Debian). Microsoft tells you how to do it here, so you don't have to go to the parent's random forum link with incomplete or inaccurate information. Microsoft's article is updated with the latest time zone changes, and contains guidance for deploying the updates across an enterprise. The $4000 fix is the prepackaged and supported version which you can simply put into your management server and push to all the machines. Of course, the DST update is free for OSes that were released in the last 5 years!
A bricked iPhone can be returned for a full switch... Correct me if I am wrong, but its not like they can tell the phone has been "unlocked", as I have not opened this phone in any way, and as such have not voided any warrenty on the hardware.
Yes, it would be interesting to see if the company who made the product would be able to tell whether or not the original software is installed on it especially after they made it clear that hacked phones are not covered. BTW, check out this comment from Engadget:
I haven't added any unauthorized software and the phone is still unusable. Apple is sending me a box it put it in so they can check if I hacked it for themselves. How sweet. 5 days from now I better get a working fun.
Seems that Apple is not giving their customers the benefit of the doubt. Best of luck!
Maybe if Microsoft spent more time on stuff (that people actually _use_ you know), instead of fluff, maybe Vista would actually be half decent.
I agree; although Vista is not without faults, many of the points you mentioned are addressed or improved in Vista.
- A way to customize the File Open dialog box, with the folders you constantly use, gasp!?
In the File Open dialog box, in "Favorite Links", right click on the small area below the list of folders, and click "Open Favorites Links" -- you can easily add or remove folders or links that are shown in that list. You can also get there by clicking on Start -> [username] (which will bring up your home directory) and open "Links".
- Expose. Enough said.
A good point; Flip3d is useful and pretty, but it leaves some things desired. Happily, a third party has come up with a competent free-ware alternative which beats Expose and Flip 3d in a number of ways. Switcher (I recommend the 2.0 beta) is built on Aero so it supports all the neat live-window-preview features. It has some unique features, like alternative layouts (Tile, Dock, and Grid), and it has a very cool ability to find a window as you type it's title. Also, it has great multi-monitor support.
- A built in spell checker / Dictionary / Thesaurus, with quick access to wikipedia
That is indeed missing!
- A search that isn't broken (Thx WinXP!)
I've found Vista's search to be pretty handy. For example, if I want to launch Winamp, I can just press my WinKey, and type "winamp" and press enter because it searches programs and the start menu. The few times I've needed search to locate a document, it's been useful. For real, non-indexed, text-based searches, the command line is much better. Windows Vista (and previous versions) comes with the findstr command. Example: to search for "resume" recursively:
findstr/s resume *
findstr supports regular expressions with the "/r" parameter.
- The ability to re-locate, (or hide) the dam 'close' button
- Title bars that stop sucking up valuable screen space, instead of being small movable tabs like in BeOS
- Virtual Desktops
Nope, doesn't do that, sadly. However, Switcher (mentioned above) makes the lack of Virtual Desktops less painful.
- An OS that gets FASTER from version to version (again BeOS)
Having only used BeOS 5, I don't know whether or not it got faster from version to version, but it was fast. Vista is faster than XP in certain areas due to optimization (it starts up faster and is more responsive after logging in and application launching is faster, for example). It is more resource intensive (read, slower) in other areas due to desktop composition and neat Aero effects, and possibly online indexing at times (although it's pretty good at throttling for idleness)
- A proper KILL command -- I'm admin on the dam box, let me kill that process.
If you don't find Task Manager convenient, you can easily use the command line. Example of
Taskkill (available in previous versions of Windows too):Taskkill/im notepad.exe You may find
Tasklist useful too.
Assuming you have UAC turned on, you'll probably want an elevated prompt which is Vista's answer to "su". You can find an way to get to a quick elevated prompt using the keyboard
If you need to have XML fragments in your Word document, one of your best options is to copy and paste from Visual Studio. The result is nicely indented, colorized and mono typed. If you don't have Visual Studio, you can download it Visual Studio Express for free.
Just open Visual Studio and create a new XML file (don't create a project-- there's no need to do so; just use File->New->File... and select XML file). Copy and paste your XML fragment into the new file. Press Ctrl-K, Ctrl-D to reformat the document. Then just select the fragment you want and copy and paste into Word.
You go to the store and refuse to show your receipt on the way out. Why does Circuit City check the receipt on the way out? Because people steal things! Why protest something that prevents people from just taking what you just spent your hard earned money on? What are you protesting exactly?
A police officer asks for your drivers license for the safety of everyone around you. Sure you look like a nice guy, but you could have an arrest warrant, be a felon escapee, or who knows. What's the problem with protecting the people around you by showing your drivers license? Let the real criminals refuse to show their license. Leave your petty little selfish conspiratorial crap at home.
I hope you do not get away with this asinine behavior.
This ruling seems inconsistent with the Sun case where anything denoted as a "condition" it was considered would be sufficient to cause the behaviour to fall outside the license.
Actually the defendants used the president set by Sun v. Microsoft to make their argument.
The Ninth Circuit has held that open source licensors such as Jacobsen waive their right to sure for copyright infringement and can only sue for breach of contract. Sun Microsystems, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., 188F.3d 115, 112 (9th Cir 1999). In Sun Microsystems, Sun and Microsoft entered into a computer licensing agreement involving Java, a computer programming language developed by Sun. Id. At 1117. Sun granted Microsoft broad rights to use the language provided that Microsoft make available only products that are compatible with Sun standards. Id. At 118. Sun filed suit against Microsoft for copyright infringement alleging that Microsoft had exceeded the scope of the license by creating enhanced versions of Java that were fully operational only on Microsoft Systems. Id. The Ninth Circuit held that, before Sun cold avail itself of the benefits of copyright law, it must "definitively establish that the rights it claims were violated are copright, not contractual rights." Id. At 1112. This determination, according to the Ninth Circuit, hinges on the scope of the license agreement. Id. At 1121. "Generally, a copyright owner who grants a nonexclusive license to use his copyrighted material waives his right to sue the licensee for copyright infringement and can only sue for breach of contract." Id. (citing Graham v. James, 144 F.3d 229, 236 (2nd Cir. 1998)). In other words, to bring a copyright infringement claim, Jacobsen must establish that the defendants have violated at least one of the exclusive rights granted to copyright holders under 17 U.S.C. 106, and not a right conferred by the license or contract. Sun Microsystems at 1122; see also A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 239 F.3d 10004, 1013 (9th Cir. 2001). Section 106 of the Copyright Act grants a copyright holder the exclusive right to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, distribute, display, and perform the copyrighted material. 17 U.S.C 106.
The argument gets more interesting from there, but my fingers are tired of transcribing.
I know it's not about the money with open source, but making a little cheddar on the side isn't gonna hurt.
What's wrong with making money writing software directly? Why should programmers be damned to pursue a menial job while voluntarily writing software in their free time? Is programming for a living not a worthy occupation?
Also, don't you want the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to apply to US Citizens in a US Court or on the streets?
No way! Our Constitution and Bill of Rights are designed to protect us and our rights! Somehow, I don't think the safety, security, and interests of Americans is high on the priority list of the UN. I would prefer that our courts stick with the Constitution and Bill of Rights that make America's interests top priority.
RMS is the original author of GPL, gcc, bash, glib, emacs and many other important tools. No "normal" person would have had the vision or determination to do what RMS has done. He originally intended to create the compiler, the runtime library, the editor (emacs) and to OS. Only a person that was a little bit "crazy" would have even attempted to do this.
Oh come on, this is Operating Systems 101. Only a megalomaniac would claim that that he's the second coming by creating the early revs of these basic tools. Add a little a charisma, and you have people willing to sacrifice their time and freedom to the free software cult.
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This may sound good and make people who already have jobs difficult to fire. However, the devastating side effect is higher unemployment, especially among the youth and inexperienced. It makes it much riskier to hire if there are high hurdles for firing. Consider that an incompetent employee could do a lot of damage during 3 warnings while costing the employer a paycheck -- and a slick lawyer could keep them at the job. Hiring is critical for a developing economy which have large numbers of young and undereducated people. Policies like this (which are prevalent in third world countries), while well meaning, unfortunately contribute to a country's third world status.
Read it!
I get why this article is on Slashdot (it's kind of cool), but why would IBM pay employees to work on this type of thing? It's impractical for several reasons...
Security & practicality:
Google:
This is very old news. The OLPC has a SD slot and should be capable of running XP as it is now. From the OLPC website:
This is something I hear a lot. Why does "Microsoft Office has no real competition" have anything to do with "the problem with Open Office". You identified some actual problems with Open Office: "[lack of] dictionaries, grammar tools, paper formatting and tool integration to support every country in every region of the world," which, I might point out, that some of the non-OO alternatives solve handily.
Speaking of "no real competition": You're very dismissive of Open Office, but there are plenty of people here who will say that it's good enough for them.This is clearly wrong. Word Perfect, after many years of neglect and changing hands several times has retained Word Perfect diehards (like Lawyers) and gained market share through OEM bundling. You can buy Corel WordPerfect Office X3 now for $280 or a $150 upgrade. It's not important to all OpenOffice users, but based on my experience with the OEM version of WP which came with my laptop, WordPerfect is faster and more compatible than OO. I see that the business edition has many more essential Office features (like an Outlook replacement).
Ummm... IWork (Pages, Keynote and Numbers)?
I don't understand why this doesn't count. It even includes a high quality licensed spell check engine.
What's wrong with webdav?
I think I agree with your point. Vista, especially Home Premium, has a lot more value than the XP editions, home, professional (for home users), tablet, or MCE for about the same price. Of course, Vista doesn't add much value if it doesn't work well for people or if users find that the new interface is confusing. I think Vista is suffering from the "new Windows" syndrome (lack of drivers and fine-tuning the new features) which has affected almost consumer Microsoft operating systems since DOS 3.0. Also, Vista has had some true marketing blunders (especially concerning how the different editions are marketed and possibly the number of editions).
The parameter handling is not being modified to prevent applications from receiving potentially malformed URLs as command line parameters. It remains the responsibility of the applications which handle URLs to properly parse their own command line parameters and to set up the applications protocol handler in a way that does not cause the application to be a vector of attack (for example, 'firefox.exe "%1"' might be a problem). The flaw that is being fixed has to do with improper handling of some protocols (http, mailto) on XP/2003 with IE7 installed, which has nothing to do with custom protocol handlers.
The MSRC post was meant to clarify the issue. Sadly, it seems that the substance of the post is ignored and misinformation prevails.
Here's my favorite: Her MySpace username is tereastarr (which, incidentally does not mention the case). The account used to upload music on Kazaa? tereastarr@kazaa.
We have strong protection for copyrights because we believe in the ability for people to write or create books, software, art, movies, music, or other "soft" art for a living. Without copyright, these things would be just hobbies. Even free software depends on strong copyright protection. Without the protection of GPL and copyright protection, GNU and Linux and other GPL software would not have the following and developer involvement and attract billions of dollars from by IBM, Sun and Google as they do today. The proof of this is BSD ("is dying") software, which has much trouble attracting developers, investors and users.
I don't mean to troll, but truly, what's the big problem? Don't distribute stuff that doesn't belong to you unless the person who owns it says it's okay. Find a better hobby and you won't get sued!
The hotfix is for an operating system which is 7 years old! Microsoft still releases free security updates for Win2k, but has a maintenance plan for non-security hotfixes. Unlike Debian, whose stable release in 2000 (Debian 2.2 or "potato", released 8 months after Windows 2k) receives no updates, security or otherwise, nor does the release after it (Debian 3.0 "woody"). Additionally, the bug for the 2005 stable release (Debian 3.1 Sarge) does not have a NZ DST fix yet. The article concerns freshly baked Debian 4.0 "etch" (released 2007) which is the only "stable" Debian which has this NZ DST fix. Apparently the price of free updates for Debian "stable" is an upgrade treadmill!
Of course you can fix the timezone data for Win2k and WinNT for free (try even finding guidance for manually DST tables on systems 7+ years old for Debian). Microsoft tells you how to do it here, so you don't have to go to the parent's random forum link with incomplete or inaccurate information. Microsoft's article is updated with the latest time zone changes, and contains guidance for deploying the updates across an enterprise. The $4000 fix is the prepackaged and supported version which you can simply put into your management server and push to all the machines. Of course, the DST update is free for OSes that were released in the last 5 years!
I agree; although Vista is not without faults, many of the points you mentioned are addressed or improved in Vista.
In the File Open dialog box, in "Favorite Links", right click on the small area below the list of folders, and click "Open Favorites Links" -- you can easily add or remove folders or links that are shown in that list. You can also get there by clicking on Start -> [username] (which will bring up your home directory) and open "Links".
A good point; Flip3d is useful and pretty, but it leaves some things desired. Happily, a third party has come up with a competent free-ware alternative which beats Expose and Flip 3d in a number of ways. Switcher (I recommend the 2.0 beta) is built on Aero so it supports all the neat live-window-preview features. It has some unique features, like alternative layouts (Tile, Dock, and Grid), and it has a very cool ability to find a window as you type it's title. Also, it has great multi-monitor support.
That is indeed missing!
I've found Vista's search to be pretty handy. For example, if I want to launch Winamp, I can just press my WinKey, and type "winamp" and press enter because it searches programs and the start menu. The few times I've needed search to locate a document, it's been useful. For real, non-indexed, text-based searches, the command line is much better. Windows Vista (and previous versions) comes with the findstr command. Example: to search for "resume" recursively: findstr /s resume *
findstr supports regular expressions with the "/r" parameter.
Nope, doesn't do that, sadly. However, Switcher (mentioned above) makes the lack of Virtual Desktops less painful.
Having only used BeOS 5, I don't know whether or not it got faster from version to version, but it was fast. Vista is faster than XP in certain areas due to optimization (it starts up faster and is more responsive after logging in and application launching is faster, for example). It is more resource intensive (read, slower) in other areas due to desktop composition and neat Aero effects, and possibly online indexing at times (although it's pretty good at throttling for idleness)
If you don't find Task Manager convenient, you can easily use the command line. Example of Taskkill (available in previous versions of Windows too):Taskkill /im notepad.exe You may find
Tasklist useful too.
Assuming you have UAC turned on, you'll probably want an elevated prompt which is Vista's answer to "su". You can find an way to get to a quick elevated prompt using the keyboard
If you need to have XML fragments in your Word document, one of your best options is to copy and paste from Visual Studio. The result is nicely indented, colorized and mono typed. If you don't have Visual Studio, you can download it Visual Studio Express for free.
Just open Visual Studio and create a new XML file (don't create a project-- there's no need to do so; just use File->New->File... and select XML file). Copy and paste your XML fragment into the new file. Press Ctrl-K, Ctrl-D to reformat the document. Then just select the fragment you want and copy and paste into Word.
I hope that helps.
Switcher is an Expose clone for Windows Vista/Aero; it beats Expose in many ways -- type to find a Window, more layout options, lots of settings.
Dear Douche,
You go to the store and refuse to show your receipt on the way out. Why does Circuit City check the receipt on the way out? Because people steal things! Why protest something that prevents people from just taking what you just spent your hard earned money on? What are you protesting exactly?
A police officer asks for your drivers license for the safety of everyone around you. Sure you look like a nice guy, but you could have an arrest warrant, be a felon escapee, or who knows. What's the problem with protecting the people around you by showing your drivers license? Let the real criminals refuse to show their license. Leave your petty little selfish conspiratorial crap at home.
I hope you do not get away with this asinine behavior.
Actually the defendants used the president set by Sun v. Microsoft to make their argument.
My rough transcript: link, line 11, page 7.
The argument gets more interesting from there, but my fingers are tired of transcribing.
No way! Our Constitution and Bill of Rights are designed to protect us and our rights! Somehow, I don't think the safety, security, and interests of Americans is high on the priority list of the UN. I would prefer that our courts stick with the Constitution and Bill of Rights that make America's interests top priority.
Well, seems that Linus can declare himself a winner and retire.
.NET (Unix-like compatible source code)
Front Page Extensions for Linux
Triple DES encryption algorithm (source code)
SQL JDBC driver (runs on Linux)
Not to mention the technical help Microsoft has provided to Mono (.NET clone for Linux) and Firefox.
Congratulations.