Je pense que LiLux devrait se fendre d'un CP à ce sujet...
Serge
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To: escape_l <escape_l(a)freescape.eu.org>
Subject: [escape_l] Bill Gates ferait pousser la chansonnette au
gouvernement danois.
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:05:07 +0100
Bill Gates en visite au Danemark a rencontré 3 ministres (le Premier,
celui de l'économie et celui des sciences), auxquels il a déclaré que
si les brevets logiciels ne passaient pas, il serait dans l'obligation
de fermer Navision (logiciels de gestion), qu'il a acquis en juillet
2002 et qui emploie 800 personnes, pour déplacer le tout aux USA.
Il faut savoir que, en raison de la réorganisation de son parlement
nouvellement élu, le Danemark souhaite que le Conseil des Ministres de
l'Union ne ne prenne pas de décision pour le moment.
Or le texte que l'on tente de faire passer en force (suite à un vote
datant de mai 2004, mais non entériné) n'a plus aucune légitimité, et
ne recueuillerait pas aujourd'hui la majorité de vote nécessaire.
L'information en anglais :
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050215071109231
Voir aussi le site de la FFII
http://wiki.ffii.org/Navision050215En
Il faut que Microsoft soit bien bas pour recourir aussi explicitement
ce genre de procédé vis à vis d'un gouvernement, sur un sujet aussi
public.
En outre, les arguments invoqués par Microsoft sont cousus de fil
blanc. Car s'il y a des brevets aux USA, il peut y breveter ce que
fait Navision, que la société soit en Europe ou aux USA. Et
réciproquement, s'il n'y en a pas en Europe, déplacer Navision aux USA
ne change rien.
Et le logiciel libre étant le principal concurrent de Microsoft, cela
donne tout son sel aux affirmations répétées du Medef et de ses
minions (Académie des Technologies par exemple) sur la prétendue
innocuité de la brevetabilité du logiciel pour le logiciel libre.
Bernard
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Serge Marelli, Luxembourg
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Does anybody know Filipe Alves ? Cause i got his invotation letter to the
AG back !
thx
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Pascal Steichen
pascal.steichen(a)lilux.lu
Lilux ASBL
http://www.lilux.lu
Hello,
There is a Heise article about AOL blocking port 25:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/56418
However AOL does some things differently than Coditel. They are actually
not blocking the port 25 but redirecting all accesses to this port via
destination NAT to their own mail relay which scans all outgoing mails
for spam and worms. This should be transparent for most users. But there
are some issues with GMX, which recommends using the alternative port
587, which I also did in my case when Coditel blocked port 25.
The article also says that AOL did prevent most major mail providers
about the introduction of their mail proxy. The article says nothing
whether AOL customers have been informed or not.
Greetings, Patrick Kaell
I'll go. Is there any shared transportation organised from Luxembourg ?
Who wants to come with me (by car) ?
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Hi,
a while back we got to see an email from Brent about a storage
offering.
Well, that offering is described in a LuxBox IT News article
(February 2005 p.20), with lots of references to and praise of
Free Software, showing that using FOSS you can divide certain
costs by a huge factor.
Thanks to Plan-Net for this public, PHB-compatible FOSS praise!
Greetings, Eric
P.S. For those who don't know / read Dilbert - PHB = Pointy-Haired
Boss, the archetype of the clueless manager.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/SiliconInsider/story?id=88655&page=1
<snip>
"Great, healthy companies not only dominate the market, but share of mind.
Look at Apple these days. But when was the last time you thought about
Microsoft, except in frustration or anger? The company just announced a
powerful new search engine, designed to take on Google - but did anybody
notice? Meanwhile, open systems world - created largely in response to
Microsoft's heavy-handed hegemony - is slowly carving away market share from
Gates & Co.: Linux and Firefox hold the world's imagination these days, not
Windows and Explorer. The only thing Microsoft seems busy at these days is
patching and plugging holes.
"Speaking of Gates: if you remember, he was supposed to be going back into
the lab to recreate the old MS alchemy. But lately it seems - statesmanship
being the final refuge of the successful entrepreneur - that he's been
devoting more time to philanthropy than capitalism. And though Steve Ballmer
is legendary for his sound and fury, these days his leadership seems to be
signifying nothing.
"Longhorn's Delayed Release
"There are other clues as well. Microsoft has always had trouble with
stand-alone applications, but in its core business it has been as relentless
as the Borg. Now the company seems to have trouble executing even the one
task that should take precedence over everything else: getting 'Longhorn,'
its Windows replacement, to market. Longhorn is now two years late. That
would be disastrous for a beloved product like the Macintosh, but for a
product that is universally reviled as a necessary, but foul-tasting,
medicine, this verges on criminal insanity. Or, more likely, organizational
paralysis.
"Does anyone out there love MSN? I doubt it; it seems to share AOL's fate of
being disliked but not hated enough to change your e-mail account. And do
college kids still dream of going to work at MS? Five years ago it was a
source of pride to go to work for the Evil Empire - now, who cares? . . .
"For now, though, none of that is obvious. Microsoft is still the dominant
company in high-tech, the cynosure of all those things people love and hate
about computing, the defining company of our time. It is huge, powerful and
confident.
"But if you sniff the air, you can just make out the first hints of rot."
</snip>
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regards,
Georges Toth
> Yes, so? It also works perfectly when I'm using MSIE, which doesn't help
> fixing the problem. In general, when someone says he has a problem,
> telling him you don't doesn't help much.
I was trying to help by saying in which cases it works, thus narrowing the scope. I'll know better next time.
> The mail I sent to the list wasn't to get help from the list (this is
> lilux-info, not help) but to let people know how uncooperative the
> person hosting the website was and how it doesn't seem to work well with
> Firefox.
You might have specified that.