And too stupid or dishonest to report Microsoft Windows as the defective disaster that it is. If it were any other type of product it would have banned from every country in the world long ago.
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Windows in hospitals... a bad combination
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I really cannot understand why hospitals, who ultimately deal with human lives are allowed to use MS-Windows on their networks. Even a simple delay in looking up if a person has a allergy for a given drug can prove to be fatal.
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Linux is not good for you…
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A friend of mine was telling me how she went to buy a new computer, asked to have Linux on it, and was told “Linux is not good for you at home” and that she shouldn’t worry, they’ll just install her Windows XP and all the things she really needs, “for free”.
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Why European Commission misses the point of Free Society: Opera always irrelevant on GNU systems
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"Following its investigation of Opera Software ASA’s antitrust complaint, the European Commission confirmed today that it sent Microsoft a Statement of Objections yesterday, accusing it of illegally tying Internet Explorer to the Windows PC operating system..."
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ReactOS - Open Source Windows
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Now here is a wacky idea! Would that not make Bill Gates have sleepless nights, even though he no longer runs Microsoft. One such company and a set of brilliant entrepreneurs are doing just that at ReactOS.
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Microsoft Appoints Robert Duffner to Fight Freedom and Harm GNU/Linux
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A new Microsoft guy, Robert Duffner, is 'marketed' to the press where he promotes open source just on Windows
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Installing Programmes in Linux vs. Windows: Which is Easier?
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An Illustration in How Windows and Linux are Dissimilar
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Unix And Linux Factoids - Your Time To Live Is Gonna Come
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How does traceroute work? After a lengthy rant on knowledge and intelligence, we'll figure it all out ;)
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Wine 1.1.10 has been released
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What’s new in Wine 1.1.10 (see below for details):
- Support for virtual memory write watches.
- Workarounds for the WINAPI compiler bug on Mac OS.
- Several fixes for the 64-bit build.
- Some more GdiPlus functions.
- Various bug fixes.
The source is available from the following locations:
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Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share--Firefox Above 20% | OStatic
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NetApplications is out with a couple of new metrics of market share for operating systems and browsers, and the news is good for open source. Topping their findings, Microsoft Windows' market share has dropped below 90 percent for the first time in its measurements. The share erosion is largely attributed to increased interest in the Mac platform, but Linux is cited as on the rise as well.
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Amarok 2.0 RC 1 was released today
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Today the Amarok project releases Narwhal, the release candidate of the upcoming Amarok 2.0.
The changes since Beta 3 focus mostly on fixing bugs, as we are in a fairly hard feature-freeze to give us time to polish the final product. However, this didn’t stop us from adding a few nice new things.
And remember, the new Amarok 2.0 RC 1 works on Windows and MacOS too.
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Internet Explorer balks at Firefox download link
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On a clean installation of Windows XP (don’t ask; it’s a long story), Internet Explorer 6 claims there’s an error on the GetFirefox.com download page, and refuses to allow a click on the download button.
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Not Free at Any Price - Why I switched to the OLPC—and why I dropped it, by Richard M. Stallman
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"The One Laptop Per Child project, launched by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte in 2003, was supposed to lead millions of children around the world to information technology and freedom [...] I now expect that the main effect of the OLPC project—if it succeeds—will be to turn millions of children into Microsoft users.
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Here are two small, but significant moves by Microsoft.
First, the Microsoft Web Installer is making it easier to run open source apps on Windows Server ..........
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Buying A Netbook? Think Linux
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Many netbook computer buyers are still reluctant to "take a chance" on Linux rather than Windows XP. But which operating system is really the riskier choice for a netbook buyer?
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