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Comment Re:Anyone can sue anyone, merit is not required (Score 1) 312

I understood your point. But I think that any peaceful method to bother them is valid. Any method to wake up chinese people somehow is valid. The evil countries are not North Korea or Libia or Iran. All this 3 countries are poor and they have any single technology or strategic advantages. The real danger comes from China and Saudi Arabia. But while they continue to buy US Bonds, they will continue to commit atrocities against their own people.

Comment Re:Why so prominent? (Score 1) 314

Why is the Linux migration is so proeminent? because it's damned late. If it was done on planned schedule, people would not talk about it. In fact, for some bureocrats, if it on time, it is fine even if the final product quality is questionable. What matter is to fill the Gantt's chart!!! If the Banco do Brasil project failed in any aspect, a lot of "analysts" would be talking about them daily!!!
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The Woes of Munich's Linux Migration 314

mikrorechner writes "The H Online has a writeup of the problems encountered by LiMux (Wikipedia entry), one of the most prominent Linux migration projects in the world, trying to introduce free software into the highly heterogenous IT infrastructure of the City of Munich. Quoting: 'Florian Schiessl, deputy head of Munich's LiMux project for migrating the city's public administration to Linux, has, for the first time, explained why migrating the city's computing landscape to open source software has taken longer than originally planned.'" Here is Shiessl's blog, in which he details some of the transition problems.
Firefox

Submission + - Mozilla Labs to bring address book to Firefox (arstechnica.com)

suraj.sun writes: Mozilla has announced the availability of an experimental new add-on for Firefox that is designed to import information about the user's contacts from a variety of Web services and other sources. The add-on makes contact details easily accessible to the user and can also selectively supply it to remote Web applications.

After the add-on has imported and indexed the user's contact data, it becomes available to the user through an integrated contact management tool that functions like an address book. One of Mozilla's first experiments is an autocompletion feature that allows users to select a contact when they are typing an e-mail address into a Web form.

To make the browser's contact database accessible to Web applications, the add-on uses the W3C Contacts API specification.

ARS Technica : http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/03/mozilla-labs-builds-add-on-to-bring-addressbook-to-firefox.ars

Linux

Submission + - The woes of Munich's Linux migration (h-online.com)

mikrorechner writes: The H Online has a writeup of the problems encountered by one of the most prominent Linux migration projects in the world, trying to introduce free software into the highly heterogenous IT infrastructure of the City of Munich. To quote from the article:

Florian Schiessl, deputy head of Munich's LiMux project for migrating the city's public administration to Linux, has, for the first time, explained why migrating the city's computing landscape to open source software has taken longer than originally planned.


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