Both are about Open Source software. Open mean also open for all. The partisans should exchange there views and software, maybe the Chinese want to inform other about there findings, as NSA always do.

And there are alternatives for Exel, both commercial and freeware. With a prepared spreadsheet with some locked headers and functions, nearly nobody can ruin them.

Or go back to DOS terminal programs as PC-File+. Simple as Cardex and well proved.

How to use off-line ? Looks to me not the ultimate application for a street kids project in Senegal.

Open Source is no plug and pray software. It ask cooperation from the users for migration of specific groups as County Councils. The knowledge of the CIO and his staff or outside company. is mostly orientated on MS, as promoting open source gives no incentives. The cost of the software is mostly not an issue as MS gives discount to 95%. It are the people behind the project who gives the difference. See the City of Munich story about migration to Linux.

There business model is built on bugs. No bugs no business. A good product needs to maintenance, updates and paid upgrades.

Very bad sample. For T-Ford you can still buy parts. Part makers have specification and can make new parts. For XP it is a kind of sealed blackbox.

Scandinavian countries, excluding Finland, are Constitutional monarchies. UK should be too. Different in most monarchies are the way the democracy for the people is implanted. It goes from 0 to 99% democracy where the monarch have abosulte power to only have power according protocol to sign the democratic made laws. Only he have not the power to refuse a law !!??!! UK with his House of Lords, which are appointed, is not that high on the ladder too.

To be honest MS had given a long time ago the date that it would stop with free updates to XP and Vista and 7. That they sell it still 3 years ago for Notebooks give maybe a false impression. How many of the running computers with XP have all, by MS publicised, updates and additions, 50% ? Not think the world will stop due computers still running XP.

For state read a state of the USA. Outside USA the laws of the local state prefers above any other. Baidu is free to use, if not agree don't use it !!

After reading this article in Der Spiegel http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-effort-to-spy-on-global-networks-a-940969-3.html my thoughts are about the differences between this and Watergate. Watergate was peanuts compare this, but Mr Nixon has to resign. Who has to resign now ??

The Snowden leaks are just about this practices. In curtain countries it is common practise for longer time, in name of ???

This means that FBI and NSA are not working together ? Iran communication is monitored by NSA .