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Reasons to Be Cheerful or Angry - Your Choice
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| FACIL is unlikely to win the suit, "but again, it's bringing attention where
| it's needed to show people there are alternatives, good ones!" yagu added. "I
| also doubt there's any (or much) malice in Quebec's motives -- it's simply a
| government with its own inertia, its own way of doing things based on how
| they've always done them. More blame should go to Microsoft for messing up
| the free marketplace dynamics."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/64354.html
Microsoft is deliberately being stupid:
Microsoft knows nothing about Itunes files
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| ".MP4 ? What's that??" Says Windows....
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| What is really puzzling, to say the least, is that this on-line database
| leaves a lot to be desired and fails to bring any results for other
| increasingly common non-Microsoft extensions like .mp4, .xvid, .divx, Vorbis
| (.ogg), and .m4v DRM protected files from Itunes. These are not rare file
| extensions, you can find these indexed and described at third party sites and
| file extension databases like File-Extensions.org, FilExt.com and
| FileInfo.net.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/feeds/rss/generic/en/GB/inq/latest/gb/inquirer/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/02/microsoft-knows-nothing-about-itunes-m4v-files-and-ogg-and-mp4
Related:
Still not convinced the world is flattening?
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| "The governments of countries around the world like India, Brazil,
| South Africa, Vietnam, Malaysia and China have either started to adopt
| or feel the need for specific policies on OSS."
|
| I got to thinking that it is almost a shame that the governments of
| third world countries are so willing to try new and revolutionary ideas
| based on sheer need and yet we are so unwilling. Why is it that so much
| time and effort is being spent on developing Linux and open source for
| the third world and not here? Simple answer!
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| They want it. They need it.
|
| We resist it.
|
| Of course I don't mean all of us, but it is remarkable how much we
| resist change, let alone a revolution of operating system. If you've
| been following my blog at all, you'll see that I have embarked on a
| journey to resurrect old computers for use in my classroom because I
| can't seem to get any new ones. A familiar problem? Tragically. But I'm
| not complaining. I am doing more with these old machines than most folks
| do with an entire lab!
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http://opensource.christophercraft.com/?p=44
Video: Carly Fiorina reflects on the "Tough Choices"
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| Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina continues her "Tough
| Choices" book tour at CNET Networks' offices in
| San Francisco.
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http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6128479.html?part=rss&tag=6128479&subj=news
OSBC: Open Source: Why Freedom Makes a Better Business Model
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| Then he suggested some business models like taking donations,
| selling ads, dual licensing, selling ad-on features, etc. You
| must give customers a compelling reason to buy - but make sure
| that it's not so compelling that the open source community
| doesn't abandon you to create an alternative. Lastly he said,
| realize that customers want everything to be free. Customers
| aren't worried about your profitability.
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http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2007/05/osbc-open-source-why-freedom-makes-a-better-business-model/
The New Economics of IT, Part II
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| Most system integrators have grown fat and happy in the proprietary
| world. They'll be the first to tell you that open source is a great
| vision, but the reality is that "you need to rely on the established
| vendors." They're just afraid for their business model. Unisys and
| CapGemini have established open source practices. See what
| they have to say.
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http://www.navicasoft.com/Newsletters/April%202007%20Newsletter.htm
Red Hat CEO faces generational divide
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| MySQL Chief Executive Marten Mickos said in an interview that he's
| observed a similar phenomenon. People rarely change, he said, so
| usually the shift to open-source software use comes with the
| arrival of a new generation of technologists at a company.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9722293-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1040_3-0-5
http://tinyurl.com/2kbzb4
Why many MCSEs won’t learn Linux
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| What he’s doing here is striking out as a way of expressing the frustration
| he feels at being unable to understand what we’re all talking about - and
| while that’s fully understandable because he’s the victim of a social
| community confusing training with education, I think it’s also completely
| illustrative of the great divide blocking widespread Linux acceptance within
| the MCSE community.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1137
An idea about teaching Linux to the MCSE community
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| Mine is quite primitive - a collection of files requiring some manual
| intervention to verify when first used - but it’s easy to see how the
| Configure/Make combination could be used to build everything from .bashrc
| files to gnome configurations. Equally, it wouldn’t be a big deal for the
| people putting out new releases to provide customized versions of the
| files -thereby creating a kind of standardized high level interface layer
| aimed at helping MCSEs overcome their fear of Linux variability.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1138
Bringing a Windows mindset to a GNU/Linux world
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| just ran across a level of stupid so off the charts I had to immediately
| comment on it here lest my inaction unwittingly foster an environment
| tolerant of such stupidity.
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http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/12/always-sudo/
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