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ernesto99 writes:
Scott McCausland, a convicted ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker is going back to court to fight for his right to use Ubuntu GNU/Linux while he is home confined. The US government is forcing him to use Windows, because that's the only OS their monitoring software can run on.
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unts writes:
Today Microsoft has officially delivered version 1.0 of Silverlight, its cross-platform, cross-browser software enabling "rich user experiences" on the web. But it isn't quite as cross-platform as solutions from Adobe and Sun; it lacks Linux support. But in today's announcement, Microsoft has said it'll work with Novell on the open-source equivalent to Silverlight, named Moonlight. Moonlight is an offshoot of the Mono project — a Novell-led F/OSS implementation of the .net framework.
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netdur writes:
From TFA
In a surprise move this week Sun Microsystems CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, said the company was ready to use the company's extensive patent portfolio to help defend Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux against Microsoft's patent threat.
Thank you Sun
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netdur writes:
jerry-lee-cooper, computer expert from zdnet network wrote insightful article on why Linux will not displace Windows
"You are kidding arent you ?
Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?"
make sure to read his comment Vista is the Future, slashdotters, what are we going to do when Windows XP is no longer supported?
