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- Gorbachev: Mr. Gates, tear down this wall!
- Gorbachev: Mr. Gates, tear down this wall!the teacher/hacker should have though about the consequences about crimeWe let a person who commited a crime scott free, it only sends the message that its okay to commit crime.Nobody is above the law, you do the crime, you do the time.Tthe New OppressorThe...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-06
- Gorbachev: Mr. Gates, tear down this wall!
- On June 12th, 1987, president Ronald Reagan delivered a famous speech at the Brandenburg gate of the Berlin wall, saying "Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!". Now the former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Gorbachev to Gates: Show mercy for pirate
- Gorbachev to Gates: Show mercy for pirateTrust a Russian court to be fair?Look, I am against software piracy in a very big way but I think this case needs to be looked at closely by Gates and MS and if needed they need to step up and ask the courts...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-05
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- Microsoft signs Linux compatibility deal
- Microsoft signs Linux compatibility dealApril foolntLOL!You had me thinking i woke up in the Twilight Zone for a minute there! Gave it away too fast"Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe", was just too obvious.Vito Soprano?:DI didn't remember the date till I moused over the link and saw http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/The Gorbachev birthmark on Ballmer's...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-01
- TomTom tells Ballmer tear down this wall
- TomTom tells Ballmer tear down this wallwell said!No it's time for OIN members to honor their agreement and counter sue M$ for patent violations.Just say..."I'm a doughnut". That's what the translation will be anyway.Microsoft will find inself increasingly isolated trying to preventcompetition and maintain the proprietary model. Companies all...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-23
- TomTom tells Ballmer tear down this wall
- By joining the Open Invention Network TomTom made its most important statement yet that it won't get pushed around in its patent litigation with Microsoft. OIN members include important players like IBM, Philips and Sony. On the other hand they also include Novell, whose original patent cross-license...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- If the birthmark fits, Microsoft will wear it
- When Jason Perlow reported on last week's Microsoft Technology Summit, he sought to compliment the company by giving CEO Steve Ballmer a Gorbachev-like birthmark right. But Gorbachev was a Communist. He wasn't elected. He was the product of a dictatorial society which was rotting from the inside,...
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0
- Last week I spent two days on campus in Redmond with about 40 of my industry colleagues at the Microsoft Technology Summit, an annual invite-only event where Microsoft selects a swath of people from all over the world -- key technology influencers -- to learn about what the company is...
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Open source values: transparency
- Open source values: transparencyI Vote for Honesty Over TransparencyThe operative word should be "honesty".How many times have you seen ads, e.g., that are transparently dishonest? Doesn't "Transparent" mean that one can see through outward behavior into true and sometimes hidden motivations?Journalists and politicians are often transparently dishonest as well, and...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-06
- "Pirate" principal freed, but plans to appeal
- A Russian court has stopped the case against Alexander Ponosov, the rural school principal accused of pirating Microsoft software. The case gained international attention after former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev wrote a public letter to Bill Gates asking him to intervene. The court said there is evidence of legal violations,...
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Russians prosecuting teacher who installed pirated Windows
- In a Goliath vs. David story, Microsoft is suing a Russian village school teacher for software piracy, reports the Associated Press. The intellectual property rights test case brought by Microsoft against Alexander Ponosov, a village school principal in the Ural Mountain region of Perm, about 620 miles east...
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- RSA 2007: Colin Powell--soldier, diplomat, VC and stand-up comic
- The closing keynote at RSA 2007 featured Colin Powell, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and first-term George W. Bush administration Secretary of State. Following his public service career, Powell has been on the lecture circuit, ranking in the big bucks and also playing venture capitalist as...
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- Can the FSF derail the Microsoft-Novell Suse pact?
- Can the FSF derail the Microsoft-Novell Suse pact?So much for "free"Apparently "free" is defined by the FSF as "things we like".Since the kernel will remain GPLv2, this suit is moot.Linus Torvalds made it clear that the kernel will not be moving to GPLv3. He said he was an Oppenheimer or...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-06
- General Colin Powell entertains the Dreamforce troops
- Former Secretary of State, General Colin Powell delivered a keynote address at salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference this morning. He was part Bill Cosby or Jay Leno, joking about his retirement as the most senior diplomat of the free world, missing his well appointed 757, taking the Washington D.C. shuttle and having...
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- U.S. pushes Russia in WTO talks to close MP3 site
- U.S. pushes Russia in WTO talks to close MP3 siteWell aint this a HOOT !Here I am buying music and they are getting it for free . Ya dang right the Russians should close down the site , perhaps doing so may keep prices down and revenue up .boahhhahahahahhahaUSA think...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-05
- Gates charity to fund malaria vaccine research
- Gates charity to fund malaria vaccine researchGates charity to fund malaria vaccine researchThis totally kicks butt! Gates again shows us just how generous he really is. You just don't see other leaders doing this type of thing. I definitely appluad Bill Gates's efforts on this. I...
- Discussion threads 2005-10-31
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