Even from a taxpayer's point of view, I would say it's not even the most relevant.
I find thoroughly unacceptable to be forced to use proprietary tools to access Public Administration's services.
Imagine a tax return form in docx format to download, fill in, submit. I'd need Word 2007 to do that. Would it be fair? Do you think this scenario is so far from reality?
Information exchange with citizens must rely on public domain tools.
Best (I believe only) way to attain this: public authorities must go open source. Period.
By the way, if the Queen of England had copyright on English language, I'd likely be writing this in Esperanto...
Price tag to 2000$ bucks till production catches up, with 1400$ given to charity (e.g. candies and fake Stalin-like whiskers for anti-capitalistic whiners). I'm sure some uneasy soul here will find this unacceptable, too.
Personal data including owner's name, card number and expiration date will always be stolen, since they're shared with other parties by nature. The killer security method is SMS notification of each transaction. Here in Italy it's widely used. What about your own countries?
I don't think spyware is going anywhere. Just as spam, it's here to stay.
I use gmail since February 2005. I post my address ( alexdrud@gmail.com ) with no particular care.
In last 6 months I had 2 false negatives (promptly learnt by the system) and, as far as I know, 1 false positive (I DO want to ejaculate like a porn star!!).
Spam is here to stay, but in a place different from where I am, and that's fine for me.
OpenOffice is NOT a replacement for M$ Office, if it looks slightly different then what people are used too, they won't touch it with a 10 foot pole.
Office 2007/12 looks more than slightly different from even 2003. Yet in 12 months from now a lot of people will be touching it with their shortest poles.
If you sell dangerous substances and make them look like candies, someone who isn't your customer swallows them and damages rusult, YES, you are liable.
This should be obvious to every joe on/.
As a non-native English speaker, I assume your "every joe" expression is devoid of any derogative hint, so I took the liberty of using it myself.
My feeling is that artists (actors and musicians in the first place) are becoming less aggressive and outspoken in defending civil liberties.
And my second feeling is, this is a kind of non-written agreement with the central authority which in turn inflicts similar jail sentences to music/movie backuppers as to armed robbers.
Proportion between offense and punishment is a founding element of democracy (you shouldn't be hanged because you said the president or a prophet is a jerk).
If I am right, ordinary people will have to start doing the job by themselves. Until of course the "power" will find everyone's tiny price tag, and there will be silence, finally...
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Even from a taxpayer's point of view, I would say it's not even the most relevant. I find thoroughly unacceptable to be forced to use proprietary tools to access Public Administration's services.
Imagine a tax return form in docx format to download, fill in, submit. I'd need Word 2007 to do that. Would it be fair? Do you think this scenario is so far from reality?
Information exchange with citizens must rely on public domain tools. Best (I believe only) way to attain this: public authorities must go open source. Period.
By the way, if the Queen of England had copyright on English language, I'd likely be writing this in Esperanto ...
Price tag to 2000$ bucks till production catches up, with 1400$ given to charity (e.g. candies and fake Stalin-like whiskers for anti-capitalistic whiners).
I'm sure some uneasy soul here will find this unacceptable, too.
Personal data including owner's name, card number and expiration date will always be stolen, since they're shared with other parties by nature.
The killer security method is SMS notification of each transaction. Here in Italy it's widely used. What about your own countries?
I use gmail since February 2005. I post my address ( alexdrud@gmail.com ) with no particular care. In last 6 months I had 2 false negatives (promptly learnt by the system) and, as far as I know, 1 false positive (I DO want to ejaculate like a porn star!!).
Spam is here to stay, but in a place different from where I am, and that's fine for me.
Office 2007/12 looks more than slightly different from even 2003. Yet in 12 months from now a lot of people will be touching it with their shortest poles.
You're right. It doesn't, just because there IS the Linux alternative.
Weren't there any more reasons to love Linux (there ARE), it would be more than enough.
Let's be honest: we all have a bias in favour of Linux because we all hate and fear monopolies.
This should be obvious to every joe on /.
As a non-native English speaker, I assume your "every joe" expression is devoid of any derogative hint, so I took the liberty of using it myself.
Isn't this a situation eligible for a class action? Any lawyer here hidden among scores of tech geeks?
And my second feeling is, this is a kind of non-written agreement with the central authority which in turn inflicts similar jail sentences to music/movie backuppers as to armed robbers.
Proportion between offense and punishment is a founding element of democracy (you shouldn't be hanged because you said the president or a prophet is a jerk).
If I am right, ordinary people will have to start doing the job by themselves. Until of course the "power" will find everyone's tiny price tag, and there will be silence, finally ...
just my 2 cents from Europe