Archive for March, 2007
Monday, March 26th, 2007
The sky gets dark as I leave the estate and I can see her standing in the street. I run the other direction and my feet begin to strike the pavement. I’m sweating by the time I reach the turnoff into the vineyards. Never-ending rows of vines line the narrow gravel alley. I take a […]
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Ahh Quebec! I love it here for lots of reasons, despite the things that sometimes divide us.The other day I got a sweet early morning heads up via google chat from the Waglo, Facil coordinator Robin Milette, about the Free Software week in September, including his hope that we’ll get involved in producing an event […]
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
I’m going hard with the aliterative titles these days. I think it’s nice in a epic saga, Beowulf kind of way. I also think this is a nice twist- the shadow minister in British Parliment making a passionate and eloquent argument against any ruling body’s dependency on closed software. And in fact, he puts OS […]
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
This from Taliya News, an interesting window into IT in other parts of the world..
Tehran, March 5, Taliya News –
Member of Board of Directors and Manager of Linux Persian National Project reiterated in an interview with CITNA,
“Taking advantage of open source software leads to lowering dependence on foreign made software, technologies, expertise, and […]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Open source systems for health care and education have always struck me as the most important and obvious places for the ethics and processes of os to make themselves understood. Chronically underfunded systems, these also represent huge international markets. Don’t doubt that propritary vendours have been knocking on hospital and school doors all over the […]
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