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Submission + - Microsoft offers licensed Office 2007/Vista free

Submitted by

Abdul Aziz

on Tuesday November 28, 2006 @10:29AM

Abdul Aziz writes: "Microsoft is offering a fully licensed copy of Office 2007 Professional edition and Windows Vista Business Edition as a part of their Power Together campaign at http://www.powertogether.com/. All you have to do is register at the Microsoft Power Together campaign website and participate in at least three qualifying web casts and/or virtual lab sessions within 30 days of registration."

Submission + - Rumsfeld Stepping Down

Submitted by macinrack on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @02:08PM

macinrack writes: Donald Rumsfeld is stepping down. "Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, architect of an unpopular war in Iraq, intends to resign after six stormy years at the Pentagon, Republican officials said Wednesday.
Officials said Robert Gates, former head of the CIA, would replace Rumsfeld."

Submission + - Gentoo devs too zealous about removing packages?

Submitted by on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @12:47PM

An anonymous reader writes: Mooting the idea of removing XMMS from Gentoo has got the users up in arms. One user writes: "I went back and forth between windows and linux for years after i finally had to retire my tired flakey (mostly of my own doing for the sake of performance) Amiga 1200. I decided on linux, started with slackware, used that soley up till about slackware 7.x and moved to gentoo sometime in 2001 or 2002. In my eyes, removal of everything fun has been the way of gentoo latley. NO xmms, no tux racer, no oh, whatever the hell that scorched earth clone was. The 3d online multiplayer one. Over all, as the user, the experiance has been heart breaking. Not becuse its broken, but, becuase it use to be allot of fun, and now its just not, now its just too serious, and too far up its own ass." To be fair, Jakub has a fairly abrasive manner, and I've had discussions (arguments) with him before.

Submission + - Former SCO CEO admits that SCO's lawsuit is bogus

Submitted by

Jackson

on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @09:14AM

Jackson writes: "Ransome Love has basically admitted that all of SCO's claims against IBM and against Linux are bogus. For example, SCO says Linux is derivative of Unix code that it owns. Bull. "To my knowledge, while I was CEO at Caldera, no one at the company viewed Linux as a derivative of any UNIX software".

From the article: "He thrusts a dagger right into the heart of SCO's claims. I see no way to recover from his declaration, because there is no one who can convincingly contradict. He was the CEO, the co-founder of the company to boot. Who can possibly know more than he does about the history of the company, what it did with Linux, its striving for POSIX compliance, and particularly whether the company knew about the header files being in its own distribution of Linux that SCO claims are infringed? Even if SCO were able to trot out Bryan Sparks, the other co-founder, Sparks was not CEO at the time of the Santa Cruz acquisition. There is no one but Love to testify at this level. Love has done the honorable thing and told the truth. I take my hat off to him.""

Submission + - Preorder Wii from Gamestop for $699

Submitted by Ixtl on Tuesday November 07, 2006 @03:36PM

Ixtl writes: From the GameStop site (http://www.gamestop.com/gs/wii/wii_signup.asp): "This Thursday evening (CST), November 9, your opportunity to get in on the excitement arrives when the Wii Bundle becomes available for purchase online. You'll get the best games, accessories and more in one convenient package delivered right to your door — all for under $699 plus tax and handling." $699?! Ouch!

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