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Comment Re:No surprise (Score 1) 396

by lnunes on Thursday May 03, 2012 @08:23PM (#39885099) Attached to: Microsoft Using Linux To Optimize Skype Traffic

So Microsoft is not a Linux contributor but they have merely contributed code to the Linux kernel.

Right...

And enough to appear as one of the 20 biggest contributors.

Please, forget about this "oh, they MUST make Linux better on its own" mentality. As you said, Microsoft contributed to make it play nicer to their software... So what? Put yourself in their shoes: wouldn't you want your own software to be compatible?
Hell, if they contributed to fix the software controller in their espresso machines, it would still be valid.

Comment Re:No surprise (Score 1) 396

by lnunes on Thursday May 03, 2012 @08:10PM (#39884935) Attached to: Microsoft Using Linux To Optimize Skype Traffic

Indeed, I agree completely with you. But not only the used, they also contributed back to the community. That alone sets them apart of the vast majority of the Linux users, at least symbolically.

Comment No surprise (Score 2) 396

by lnunes on Thursday May 03, 2012 @08:00PM (#39884805) Attached to: Microsoft Using Linux To Optimize Skype Traffic

Microsoft is one of the biggest Linux contributors http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/microsoft-counted-key-linux-contributor-now-anyway-190104. In my view they have absolutely all the right to use it, if it fits their solution.

Comment Re:Natural Selection at work (Score 1) 489

by lnunes on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:38PM (#39223629) Attached to: Is Poor Numeracy Ruining Lives?

You never watched Idiocracy, did you?

Comment Link is (was?) broken (Score 5, Informative) 135

by lnunes on Thursday July 28, 2011 @04:50PM (#36913560) Attached to: Debian Wheezy To Have Multi-Architecture Support

Read about it here: http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch

Submission + - Internet pioneer Paul Baran dies, aged 84 (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk on Monday March 28, 2011 @02:19PM

mikejuk writes: Paul Baran, whose work in the 1960's helped create the technical underpinnings for the Arpanet, the government-sponsored precursor to today's Internet, died at his home in Palo Alto, California, on March 26, 2011.

Submission + - Too Many Systems, Not Enough Vision (businessservicemanagementhub.com)

Submitted by

rsmiller510

on Thursday March 10, 2011 @06:56PM

rsmiller510 writes: "Today's IT pros have to deal with a myriad of software and hardware, physical and virtual, spanning geographical locations and it requires a system that lets you see across all of this complexity to get the big picture."

Submission + - LHC/CMS Narrows Search for Higgs Particle (discovery.com)

Submitted by

astroengine

on Thursday March 03, 2011 @05:10AM

astroengine writes: "On Wednesday, the CMS Collaboration announced its first science results. But no Higgs boson has been detected, yet. Physicists have instead narrowed the search down, and with a 95 percent certainty, the Higgs does not have a mass range of between 144 and 207 GeV/c2. In this quantum search for a proverbial needle in a haystack, it helps if the haystack shrinks a little."

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