It’s amazing how many online companies just don’t get the hint.. Granted, the linux user base is far smaller than the Windows user base. However; Could you imagine how many *more* users someone like Netflix would gain if they supported online viewing of movies for Linux users? that’s like a instant influx of a million or more users that would pay money to use the service.. It seems kinda asinine that they won’t do it… or anyone for that matter.. oh right… Hulu does. 😉
-Scott
Gotta love fuckin’ morons….
Lagos Analysis Corporation (LANCOR) is going forward with its patent infringement lawsuit against the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. LANCOR has obtained a temporary injunction against the distribution of the OLPC XO laptop in Nigeria and is seeking a permanent injunction as well as $20 million in damages. –Ars Technica
Well, another year has come and gone and it was a heck of a year, many advances in the Linux desktop world, we say Vista crash and burn. Google is still a tech giant and many other things. The only disappointing thing to me is it was another year that the military was not able to take the gloves off and get done and out of the middle east. It’s time to stop beating around the bush people, do what needs to be done and get out.
-S
KDE 4 is shipping in 12 days, they have a great sounding event setup for the release on the Google Campus.
Steal This Film part II is now available for download.
“These are strange times indeed. While they continue to command so much attention in the mainstream media, the ‘battles’ between old and new modes of distribution, between the pirate and the institution of copyright, seem to many of us already lost and won. We know who the victors are. Why then say any more?” –Stealthisfilm.com
The movie is quite good, it features interviews with some of the people that are caught directly in the spotlight of the media sharing / copyright battle (Ex. Peter from The Pirate Bay & Erik from Mininova). It’s definitely worth a watch, it even has a lovely little quote from the one and only Dan Glickman (Head of the MPAA) in which he states “We know we’ll never be able to stop piracy”. Interesting……
-S