Links 11/05/2008: Debian GNU/Linux Serves Millions, Linux Phones Extravaganza
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-11 08:53:51 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-11 08:53:51 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
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- `We're under attack. But the attackers smile at us and hire PR firms to spy, mislead etc.
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- To Microsoft, Africa is just "someplace" to get intensive, hard-working human 'resources' (tech labour) at 2 dollars 'apiece' as in per person per hour
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- Microsoft Layoffs and Closures Now Reported in Africa
- Microsoft Uninstalls Nigeria as it closes African Development Centre (ADC) in Lagos
- [Video] Richard Stallman, "I Saw You Playing Your Recorder in Paris" (Due to Proprietary Software Only)
- Corporate autocrats do not want counterparts or alternatives to even exist
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- "Richard Stallman will give a talk, in French, Free Software and Freedom in a Digital Society at Centrale Supelec in Saclay, on May 15."
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- it always means that something has failed - not that they'll openly admit it
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- another talk, which he has only just announced
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- a sharp rise in GNU/Linux usage
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- twentieth anniversary of the site
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- Reprinted from Alexandre Oliva
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- Today's video talks about what happens to workforces (across disciplines) in recent years
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- digital arson
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- Hours ago in IGN: "Microsoft did not say how many staff will lose their jobs, but significant layoffs are inevitable. IGN has asked Bethesda for comment. Microsoft declined to expand further when contacted by IGN."
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- the latest from statCounter
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- In a few months IRC turns 36
- Sedating Oneself (and Shareholders) With Fuzzy Buzzwords and Pointless Acquisitions
- IBM trying to buy time
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- sooner or later charlatans and frauds run out of steam
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- Journalism is the lifeblood of democracy and free societies
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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- numbers from statCounter
Comments
David Heath
2008-05-11 11:44:50
However, I need the hits! ~smile~
rub me
2008-05-11 12:18:39
Woods
2008-05-11 12:37:20
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Microsoft-mobile-phone,news-28182.html
interesting, considering the Wintel-moves with OLPC...
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-11 12:48:36
Thanks, I saw that a few days ago and shared it elsewhere (putting things in perspective using related articles, which I append below). In the links postings I never include any excepts, so I thought adding it here would seem like (or even serve as) Microsoft promotion. I sent it for inclusion in Groklaw though, where bits that show Microsoft attaching strings get highlighted in the form of selective excerpts.
It's very ironic that the same company which ridiculed the idea of computing for the poor (notably OLPC) hopes that we will suddenly forget this and accept its entrance into this market, provided there's 'addiction' to Windows. Microsoft perceives these people as prospective clients and hopes that its obedient media will perceive and also present this as charity. It's a win-win situation for Microsoft and at the end of the day it's more unethical than ethical. To Microsoft it's merely an investment which is bound to cost these people when they grow older. The same goes for donations to some schools. I ought to accumulate more links and present them sensibly in order to defend this view which is seen as controversial to those who don't know better. Remember that people are brainwashed to believe all sorts of things, including: (1) software patents are crucial for innovation; (2) DRM defends musicians; (3) open source is, by definition, difficult to use; (4) Free software is about being cheap.
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From: Roy Schestowitz
Microsoft to Increase Focus on Handsets for Poor
,----[ Quote ] | It's a subtle change from the past now that Craig Mundie, chief research | and strategy officer at Microsoft, has taken over the company's Unlimited | Potential Group, which focuses on the developing world. `----
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145633/microsoft_to_increa...
The Unlimited Addiction Group is about getting people dependent on Windows, especially where Free software gets adopted. It's an unethical program intended to identity areas of competition for Microsoft and then dumping dependencies onto them. The group's leader recently ditched the company. No surprises.
Related:
Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
,----[ Quote ] | "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. | | Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said: | | "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] `----
http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html