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old-new story. I guess the same ending. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/5/... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell#Death
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you still look @it as a technological problem. It isn't. It is a social (moral) problem, thus cannot be solved by any interpreter, BSD fork (which deceivingly, towards the BIOS pretends to be Windows ;) etc.
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Read again. You cannot trust code, and making it public is almost irrelevant in this regard. You need the full resources of an "emerging" country, like China, to fully develop your own (e.g. Longsoon). "Moral The moral is obvious. You can'
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think again. http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
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+1. Feel free to use anewaccountname. The pair-word for it is right after $myaccountname on the login/registration page.
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Look at King Jimmy's bag collection. It will tell you, that GOOG is behind Wikipedia, somewhat like Firefox, but maybe not as completely having sold out. It made GOOG business sense to assist in generating valuable content on the internet,
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right to read. http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/11/19/the-future-of-re... http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
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dupe. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=236494
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I seriously do not understand you. Who else is in a better position to take responsibility and care, than you (& partner)? How else could you do it if not with love? Your partner + you: 20% off is 1+1 days a week. Make grandparents happ
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Society has a response to (a) and (b). It is called a social net, based on solidarity: it works like insurance schemes should (not speaking of fraudulent market schemes, e.g. the US health insurance). I think the biggest problem is, that yo
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Who? How? When? You. The way you made her. The Famous 20% time?
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The Android which really made it: Openmoko reopen now(openmoko.com)
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Dtrace progress(crisp.demon.co.uk)
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At least that was also a crime. Ah yes, those were the days my Friend...
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As a person who was born in a present day US colony, I can personally prove you wrong. These people make poor people suffer the exact same way as the Mafia and other villains. You can call it white collar crime, creative accounting, aggress
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Gates didn't steal his money - he made it a way that Richard Stallman happens to disapprove of... there's a big difference. Not only RMS would disapprove. Big difference. Backgrounder: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/19/ballmer_eggs
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The problem of language (is it a learnt pattern or inherent?) brings us to some Necessary Illusions, which some believe is essential for building large systems. What I am saying, is that abstractions behind wealth transferring interfaces hi
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This is no fun: it is dead serious. You are cheating yourselves. The following crowd of PG's self delusion of ~ creating wealth out of void is a fallacy: the tomatoes for his spaghetti and $ for Vulture Capital has to come from somewhere. X
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Now you know, how it feels to be cheated.
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Ghostly threat to internet security(heise-online.co.uk)
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Superb new Flash game for News.YC members: http://www.egg-attack.com Backgrounder: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/19/ballmer_eggs/ http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49451
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Schmidt said "Don't be evil" is meant to provoke internal debate over what constitutes ethical corporate behavior, rather than representing an absolute moral position. Having acquired the legal rights and protections of a person, the ques
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This happens in Europe as well: Something Rotten in Hungary In the end, Steve Ballmer is doing what any good CEO should be doing, by recognizing where to best put his efforts to best sell his company to the world. Clearly, Mr. Ballmer sees
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like the asus eeepc using linux, I'd expect MS dominance to take a major bashing over the next years on PCs false about Xandros. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_and_free_softw...
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DRM gives power to Microsoft and Big Media. * They decide which programs you can and can't use on your computer * They decide which features of your computer or software you can use at any given moment * They force you to i
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mplayer -dumpstream URL -dumpfile microsoft.corruption.wmv
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1. GOOG promises(?) to "expose search algorithm secrets". Nothing earth-shattering has been exposed [like MS promises to be interoperable and open, see OSL and ODF support...] 2. Nobody ever said, that what you see is what you get from them
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you can get an almost unobtrusive (only sticks out a fw mm-s) usb bt adaptor for the price of a sandwich. It is very popular for the eee.
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They are all Intel Reference platforms: only your budget will determine the model (if you get your money through work, then you'll go for the best "bang for the buck"). That said, there are 4-5 (tops) companies in the WORLD making notebooks
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This is called being "promoted away" to do no harm, when firing is not an option for some reason. This time he had blind luck; the project could have been scrapped, as most actually end up. Everybody and their dog was implementing a browser

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