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Submission + - DRM gives "unprecedented choice" to consum

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Accommodate Students

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @06:45AM

Accommodate Students writes: "In response to one of the ever increasing number of online petitions to the Prime Minister, the UK Government has declared that

DRM does not only act as a policeman through technical protection measures, it also enables content companies to offer the consumer unprecedented choice in terms of how they consume content, and the corresponding price they wish to pay.
The original petition gained 1,414 signatures; the BBC is covering the story."

Submission + - MMA against teaching pre-Islamic history

Submitted by on Thursday February 22, 2007 @06:20AM

An anonymous reader writes: http://dawn.com/2007/02/22/top2.htm Politicians believe that there is no point in teaching history that doesn't fit their agenda.

Submission + - ESR had enough with Fedora, moved to Ubuntu

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sufehmi

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @04:42AM

sufehmi writes: "After almost losing his data because of a minor update from Fedora, ESR finally call it quits. In his posting on fedora-devel@, he lambasted on the purist attitude of the Fedora project, while losing touch with the reality.

I've moved away from Fedora once I realized that security updates are not going very well for older versions, endangering my computers; especially after the Fedora legacy project folded up.

Personally, I think it's possible to find a middle-path; where a Linux distro is both free (as in freedom) and Just Works (tm) for your average John Doe."

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