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Submission + - Boeing 737 Abandoned on Busy Road in Bombay

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 03, 2007 @11:05PM

An anonymous reader writes: Residents of the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) are wondering how long it will take to remove a disused Boeing 737 that has been abandoned in a busy road. The decommissioned aircraft was being driven through the city at the weekend when the driver got lost and then abandoned the plane.

Submission + - OpenOffice + Linux = Crap

Submitted by ramboando on Thursday May 03, 2007 @09:09PM

ramboando writes: Open Kernel Labs founder Professor Gernot Heiser had some blunt words for the OpenOffice community — the product isn't ready to compete with the big boys. In this story, he says: "If you want to be successful in open source it can't just be a 'me too' product. Anything that's not the best technology will not work ... enterprise is willing to pay for the best. OpenOffice is not the best ... it's the first thing that made me move from Linux to Mac," Heiser said. "Open source is creating the most pure Darwinist environment possible. It's brutal survival of the fittest," he said, surprising the crowd at CeBIT's Open Source Business session today. "Only the best software will be able to survive. Regardless of how free it is, enterprise will not use it unless it is better," Heiser added. Sun's Simon Phipps basically said he was talking crap.

Submission + - Silverlight on Linux? We're in, says Mono founder

Submitted by El Lobo on Thursday May 03, 2007 @03:11AM

El Lobo writes: The Mono open-source project will create a Linux version of Silverlight by the end of year, said Miguel de Icaza, a Novell vice president and head of Mono. Asked about plans for Linux, Microsoft executives have been non-committal, saying that it will depend on demand. But de Icaza, who is attending Mix, was able to commit without hesitating.

Submission + - Linux: A Japanese Penguin

Submitted by

reporter

on Thursday May 03, 2007 @02:17AM

reporter writes: "According to a report by Reuters, Tokyo is aggressively promoting Linux in all branches of the Japanese government. The report states, "The central government has set aside 1.25 trillion yen ($10.40 billion) for spending on information systems in the fiscal 2007 budget, and the figure is expected to reach around 2 trillion yen when including local governments. That would be around roughly 15 percent of IT spending for all of Japan , including private-sector corporations, the Nikkei said.""

Submission + - Yahoo Pipes adds more geodata support

Submitted by

Steven

on Thursday May 03, 2007 @02:10AM

Steven writes: "Yahoo Pipes added additional GeoData support today. The coolest new feature appears to be the KML support. They also posted some interesting example Pipes. The KML output means you can use Pipes on gMaps and gEarth!"

Submission + - Google's Evil NDA

Submitted by on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @07:28PM

An anonymous reader writes: Google claims that it's motto is "Do No Evil" — but they sure have an evil NDA! In order to be considered for employment there, they require you to sign an agreement which forbids you to "mention or imply the name of Google" in public ever again. Further, you can't tell anyone you interviewed there, or what they offered you, and you possibly sign away your rights to reverse engineer any of Google's code ever. And this NDA never expires. Luckily, someone has posted the contents of the NDA before he signed it and had to say silent forever.

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