MS does NOT repeat *NOT* have a monopoly, what a joke, if you say they have a monopoly you are denying that Linux, OSX does not exist at all,, as far as i can see, they do exist so you are just being idiots and cry babies, "MS is better than us so im goign to go cry to daddy" (daddy = EU) what a sad joke. Here's an idea, create a product that meets the customers requirements and that meets the markets needs, and gain your own market share. Instead of trying to drag MS down to your low level of performance. You say compete on a equal free market, do you remember a time when MS did not exist at all, and UNIX ruled the world. Unix (by IBM) was THE OS. Then along came MS with DOS and then W3.0 adn Win 311 and they went from zero market share to 90%+ market share. All that time Linux was busy copying UNIX and trying to win some of UNIX's majority market share, (also keep in mind IBM was a closed hardware platform, before "ibm-compatable"). MS and windows met the consumer requirements, people were willing to PAY for the product, even when there was free alternatives. MS should not be called a monopoly, FOSS should be called morons for throwing away market share, FOSS you've had 17 years to do something with yourselves and all you do is whine and bitch and cry about MS who are doing very well for themselves and the market. Clearly they listen and respond to the market, they provide what the market wants and what the market is will to pay good money for. FOSS you cant even GIVE AWAY your "crapware". and for the past 17 your still banging away on the same tired drum. "MS is this, MS is evil, we dont like MS because..." cry, whine moan.. Get over it, pay your programmers, listen to the vast majority of the computer users on the planet, or give up. 17 years and your still NOWHERE, MS OWNS the OS market, why ,,, because you let them. blame no one but yourselves, and stop trying to get the courts to make excuses for your own incompetance.

FOSS would be dancing naked in the streets. LOL 2008 WinXP W2000 Win98 Vista W2003 Linux Mac December 71.4% 1.7% 0.1% 15.6% 1.7% 3.8% 5.3% http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp Windows 88.68% Mac 9.63% Linux 0.85% iPhone 0.44% Playstation 0.04% SunOS 0.01% Nintendo Wii 0.01% FreeBSD 0.01% NetBSD 0.00% AIX 0.00% HP-UX 0.00% OpenVMS 0.00% SCP 0.00% SCO 0.00% OpenBSD 0.00% http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8

HOW right you are, "fragmented by ideological debates as Negroponte shifts the agenda away from software freedom and towards Windows" I thought it was about education and not just to push the FOSS cult.

I think there is justa restriction on the encription key length, so that with a good amount of processing power you can crack it without too much effort. the GLP'ed code is viewable, so a backdoor would be hard to get away with.

Dont you watch NCIS ??? that hot goth babe can creack 256 bit encription before the next commercial break !!! as for black hat and white hat, a white hat was supposed to be the ones who would break into a system and not do any damage, but really all hackers are baddies (black hats) when the opportunity allows. Its like the criminals who feel remorse for their misdeeds, what they really feel is sorry they got caught, not for doing it in the first place. I hope he has fun in prison,, its the best place for his ilk.

they showed him the real definition of a "Back door" entry method !!!!!! -_~

"When did humans lose out in significance in favour of corporations?" Forever, would be easier to ask when has it not. Evem Spock said something about how the many should be before the few on the one. there wont be a revolution, and there wont be any great changes to patent laws or copyright, they are concepts over time that have proven their worth to society. I cant see the world following your revolt regarding patents and copyright, but good luck with it.

Universities and industry get used to it, and know if you do come up with something patentable, the golden rule is, DONT TELL ANYONE. Its not the person who thought of the idea, its the person or group who patents it. I bet most students even if they did come up with the idea have the resources to patent it anyway, so what then let someone else get a patent on it ? The world is not easy or fair nor should it be, get over it.

You've let them win, you've enabled the extreemists. By reacting as scared kids who dont understand the real world, you are giving a huge and strong signal to the extreemists, that yes they have won, and the US generally has lost the war on terrism. thats right lost yet another "war". The US used to be the land of the brave and the home of the free !!! NOT ANY MORE. its the land of the scared and the home of the repressed. This family was born in the US, so they have a different religion to some others in the US, once was a time where the US had religious freedom, and freedom in general. The rest of the world looks upon the US now as a bunch of scared and reactive, ill informed hicks. Most of your congress dont even have passports !! they hardly know or understand what the world outside of the US is really like. The "war on terror" will go down in history as one of the most if not the most ill informed and poorly thought out campains in living history. and a huge loss to the US's standing on the world stage. Also due to this well stupid war on terror, the invasion of IRAQ (when they did not even do 911, or have WMD's), has initiated the biggest world wide financial crisis since the great depression. You cant expect to spends billions of dollars a week year after year after year in a failed war in Iraq and expect your economy to stay strong. (yes i do know about sub-prime, but that was not the causal problem to the crisis, it was the massive drain on the economy the war on terror that brought you down). Bush knew that a president had a better chance to gain re election if he had a cause and war, he did that in Iraq, he got his second term, and screwed the country and now the world to do it. Sometimes i wonder about the US mentality, also, raciasm, most people dont shy away from people we dont know, we are not afraid, we say "hello, where are you from" and we try to learn off them. but thats the rest of the world, seems not the US. Which is sad, **NOT** FREE,, ***NOT*** brave. and not being looked up to anymore. the US is a sad and hollow shell of what it used to be !!

You've let them win, you've enabled the extreemists. By reacting as scared kids who dont understand the real world, you are giving a huge and strong signal to the extreemists, that yes they have won, and the US generally has lost the war on terrism. thats right lost yet another "war". The US used to be the land of the brave and the home of the free !!! NOT ANY MORE. its the land of the scared and the home of the repressed. This family was born in the US, so they have a different religion to some others in the US, once was a time where the US had religious freedom, and freedom in general. The rest of the world looks upon the US now as a bunch of scared and reactive, ill informed hicks. Most of your congress dont even have passports !! they hardly know or understand what the world outside of the US is really like. The "war on terror" will go down in history as one of the most if not the most ill informed and poorly thought out campains in living history. and a huge loss to the US's standing on the world stage. Also due to this well stupid war on terror, the invasion of IRAQ (when they did not even do 911, or have WMD's), has initiated the biggest world wide financial crisis since the great depression. You cant expect to spends billions of dollars a week year after year after year in a failed war in Iraq and expect your economy to stay strong. (yes i do know about sub-prime, but that was not the causal problem to the crisis, it was the massive drain on the economy the war on terror that brought you down). Bush knew that a president had a better chance to gain re election if he had a cause and war, he did that in Iraq, he got his second term, and screwed the country and now the world to do it. Sometimes i wonder about the US mentality, also, raciasm, most people dont shy away from people we dont know, we are not afraid, we say "hello, where are you from" and we try to learn off them. but thats the rest of the world, seems not the US. Which is sad, **NOT** FREE,, ***NOT*** brave. and not being looked up to anymore. the US is a sad and hollow shell of what it used to be !!