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Submission + - German Linux Community boycotting LinuxTag

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em8chel

on Saturday May 19, 2007 @01:50PM

em8chel writes: "LinuxTag, Germany's major fair for Linux and Free Software, is facing a massive boycott from open source enthusiasts in the country this year. Although still a week away before the event kicks start, the community is voicing their anger and disappointment on various forums about this year's LinuxTag running under the auspices of Wolfgang Schaeuble, the conservative Minister of Interior, who wants to legitimate the use of evidence gathered through torture, reverse the legal application of presumption of innocence ("guilty until proved innocent"), and more recently, change the constitution in order to secretly install a "Federal Trojan" (Bundestrojaner) on citizens' computers without their knowledge. Due to online protests and outcries of boycott, the organizer of LinuxTag has released a statement (in German), holding that the politician's policies and political views have nothing to do with supporting free software, adding that if the community boycotts LinuxTag, it's the open source software that would be hit the hardest, and that Schaeuble probably wouldn't even notice anything."

Submission + - Comparison of Working at the 3 Big Software Giants

Submitted by

castironwok

on Saturday February 17, 2007 @04:35AM

castironwok writes: "Finally, everything you've ever wanted to know about being an employee at Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Tastyresearch describes his (or her) past few years interning and working at the three companies. Things I didn't know from before: Bill Gates wears old shoes, Google's internal security watches you like a hawk, the office styles of each company, and how to fill your suitcase with Google T-shirts. He calls the few select companies the 'prestigious internship circle', noting "once you have worked at one, it's a lot easier to get into another". But what *I* really want to know now, is who has a more equal male-female ratio?"

Feed What’s Online: Don’t Buy My Book, Just Read It (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Saturday February 17, 2007 @02:12AM

Seth Godin published a book under a Creative Commons license that allows anyone to republish and sell it. But he was a little surprised when someone actually did.

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