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Comment Re:Oh, they can fuck right off. (Score 1) 258

> They're just a bunch of spoiled SF kids thinking they're activists. Real activists wouldn't let something like not having internet access during the protest get in their way.

I didn't understand what you meant by that?

It is an uttermost essential thing to have internet access, if anyone would try to take away that right, I would defend it with my own life.

Submission + - "No Power for the Parliament" warns EPO examiners 2

zoobab writes: The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) sent a letter to the President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, warning of risks for the European Parliament to be "circumvented" as a legislator when the EU will accede to the European Patent Convention (EPC). The European Patent Organisation is everything except a model of democracy: national patent offices are in power, there is no parliament involved in the decision making process, and diplomatic conferences are held behind closed doors. There are plans to create a central patent court in Europe, which would operate in a democratic vacuum, as it would not be counterbalanced by any legislative assembly, let alone the European Parliament. Such central patent court could also validate software patents via caselaw (as it was recently done with the Microsoft FAT patent by the German Supreme Court), and Microsoft, IBM or SAP are lobbying in Brussels not to reopen the software patent directive.

Comment Re:My Netbook with XP is great... (Score 1) 833

Do you consider dual booting not being an effort?

Run your XP within e.g. virtualbox, then you can have it handy available whenever you may need it.

Don't allow the Linux system be kept as a system for the elite only.

Actually, I think it is better to say Gnome system , KDE system etc as most people think about the GUI anyway, and there are alternatives to GNU/Linux as the GNU/BSD and GNU/Hurd. And, you can even run KDE in the Windows environment. I'm running Gnome myself, most people I know run KDE though, and KDE is implemented with QT which I consider a better basis for GUI programming than GTK.

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