Friday June 20, 2008 links for 2008-06-20
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My, how the Chinese have learned skills from the international arena. No self-consciousness at all about forming a cartel to conduct anti-trust actions, it seems.
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The cuckoo strategy as a demonstrated dimension of humanity.
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Not as rare as it may seem. My flight from Sydney to San Francisco was delayed becuase someone decided to have a swift smoke in the toilet during boarding. The rest of this woman's reaction seems calculated to get her arrested, though.
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Truly excellent news; congratulations to both the Red Hat team Rich names and also the key figures from Sun and the rest of the community who were key to this success.
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"ODF has clearly won," said Stuart McKee, ... Microsoft's national technology officer ... Thursday during a panel discussion at the Red Hat Summit in Boston.
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If this does indeed turn out to become a series it will be awesome. As it is the introduction to tequila this gives is very good and well worth the read.
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This looks like a mini-Lulu. If they can sort out local production in Europe they could be fantastically successful.
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Very sad to see Erwin leaving the Sun family and moving on, but he remains a great friend and I wish him the very best in his new job.
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( Jun 20 2008, 01:32:30 AM PDT )
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How about addressing the monopoly of the Chinese Communist Party in the "political market" first?
Hypocrites!!!
Posted by Pandyian KattaBomman on June 20, 2008 at 03:02 AM PDT #
It's good to see China taking care of the 'Poor... Poor Drug Dealer'.
Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
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| "Microsoft's strategy of getting developing nations hooked on its
| software was clearly outlined by Bill Gates almost a decade ago," said
| Con Zymaris, CEO of long-standing open source firm Cybersource.
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| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
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| "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but
| people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though.
| As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
| They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
| collect sometime in the next decade."[1]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on June 20, 2008 at 04:41 AM PDT #