Hello all,
Did you see this in the latest issue of the "La sélection" P&T Lux
newspaper distributed to all households ?
"Microsoft condamné à rembourser 1,1 milliard de dollards
Le numéro un du logiciel va devoir rembourser la modique somme de 1,1
milliard de dollards à des entreprises et à des particuliers de
Californie. reconnu coupable, selon la loi antitrust, d'avoir abusé du
monopole de Windows et facturé le système d'exploitation au prix fort,
Microsoft est condamné à rembourser aux plaignants l'achat de leurs
logiciels Microsoft, soit généralement un peu plus de 100$ chacun, sauf
pour les entreprises, pour lesquelles les montants sont bien plus élevés."
Anybody interested in starting the same case here based on the european
legislation, of course?
Guilain
Nice to know: "Security Engineering - The Book", by Ross Anderson is now
an on-line book
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html
>From the webpage :
"My goal in making the book freely available is twofold. First, I want
to reach the widest possible audience, especially among poor students.
Second, I am a pragmatic libertarian on free culture and free software
issues; I think that many publishers (especially of music and software)
are too defensive of copyright. I don't expect to lose money by making
this book available for free: more people will read it, and those of you
who find it useful will hopefully buy a copy. After all, a proper book
is half the size and weight of 300-odd sheets of laser-printed paper in
a ring binder. (My colleague David MacKay found that putting his book on
coding theory online actually helped its sales. Book publishers are
getting the message faster than the music or software folks.)"
Mr Anderson has also some interesting words on TCPA and more... see :
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.htmlhttp://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/#Lib
enjoy
Serge
Eric Dondelinger wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> has the date been fixed for the next meeting?
>
> I'd have a couple of questions to ask to experts ;-)
>
> Greetings, Eric
Due to the few people here in August, I'd say we do the next meeting in
September. 21st would be a logical date.
However, if there is enough interest (please send mail if you are
interested), we can do a restaurant meeting next week (31st)
Regards,
Alain
Hello,
Anybody interested joining a team?
Cheers
Paulo
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Hi,
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=23836054&forum_id=26…
Qoted from website:
" As part of the Linux-NTFS project, I'm happy to announce my contribution
to ntfsmount and libntfs which resulted ntfs-3g, a read-write ntfs driver,
capable for unlimited file creation and deletion."
On my SuSE 10.1, configure need fuse,
configure looks also requesting fuse-devel header missing from SuSE DVD,
I remove all fuse packages and compil tar.gz from
http://fuse.sourceforge.net/
Good day,
Laurent.
Hi,
for those of us having to suffer Notes, IBM is bringing
out a Linux client much earlier than anticipated:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/75241
Let's hope they will not only bring packages pre-made
for RHEL and Novell...
Greetings, Eric
Sorry, i actually left out all the links in my snippet :
cheers, patrick
During the iSummit last weekend in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I had the
opportunity to sit down with Dwayne Bailey from the WordForge project
(http://translate.sourceforge.net) We discussed the tools used to
translate Creative Commons software and he assisted me in installing the
server-based tool Pootle (http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle)
on our servers.
At this time I'm pleased to announce that
http://translate.creativecommons.org is live and open for business.
I've moved the ccPublisher translations I have available onto the site,
and ccHost translations will be available there as well. Some
documentation on how we're using Pootle is available in our wiki at
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Translating_CC_Tools.
If you have questions about using Pootle, about translation in general
or would like to import a translation-in-progress into Pootle, email the
cctools-i18n (http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/cctools-i18n) list.
--
Nathan R. Yergler
Software Engineer
Creative Commons
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/User:NathanYergler
On 05/07/06, Georges Toth <georges(a)norm.lu> wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> > my two cents on translation software, as this is a topic for the
> > Creative Commons community, which went for Pootle instead of Rosetta
> > for the reasons below:
>
> Thanks for the hint.
> Never heard of that project....will have a look at it !
>
> <snip....>
> Hmm ok... dunno as I haven't tried it myself yet.
>
>
>
> --
>
> regards,
> Georges Toth
>