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Microsoft suddenly wants to make the people of Kerala “e-literate” - and if this report is true, we will soon be hearing about the virtues of MS software from our own dear Mammootty!
Hope he reads this letter and decides to say “NO” to Bill.G, just like he said NO to coca-cola.

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Bangalore: The Letter of Intent signed by the Karnataka government with Microsoft to establish paperless offices is drawing criticism from advocates of Free and Open Source Software (Free as in freedom). They have started a campaign against it on the web page, savekannada.googlepages.com

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Microsoft is not aware of using language appropriately. It strings […]

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Here is a chance for you to gain cutting edge degrees right here in India - the world’s biggest, most advanced software superpower,. famous for the creation of card games, paint programs and eye-candy like Vista now announces the setting up of a MS university in the world’s copy-paste capital, Bangalore. Initially, the following […]

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The US patent office has granted me patent no: 776865656C for what I describe to be:

A sophisticated mechanism to reduce frictional loss in man-made moving objects by converting applied force to angular momentum.

I expect to get handsome royalties from this patent, enough to let me spend the rest of my life in the pursuit […]

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Read Microsoft is Dead,by Paul Graham
Read also:The cliff notes
A few reader comments for the first article caught my attention, especially one in which the reader critically examines the modern `corporate culture’. The last paragraph is truly striking:

In summary, my problem is not with capitalism, and I am not a socialist. I merely fear […]

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The rules of ethical competition do not apply to monopolies like MS. An ordinary company producing product XYZ may be beaten by a similar company producing a better product and selling it at a lower cost - but once a company’s financial muscle grows to such an extend as MS’s, they can easily bend […]

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As Bill Gates declares the ‚”Wow starts now‚” technology activists declare the launch of Vista to be an “Ow starts now,” for citizens rights.

Greeting lunch guests at the swank Cipriani’s in midtown Manhattan, and later at the nearby Nokia Theater launch party, protesters wearing Hazmat suits and carrying banners calling for Vista to be […]

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The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history.

Read A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
Read Analysis of Microsoft’s suicide note
Bill.G has certainly started showing signs of senility!
A common argument which I hear from people who haven’t understood the idea behind Free Software clearly is : […]

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Got my copy of the Scientific American (Indian edition) today. The cover story is by a certain Bill.G who seems to be very excited about the future prospects of robotics.
Bill.G, being a very modest guy, has some interesting things to say:

Back in the early days of the PC, we realized that we needed an […]

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Vista is an upsell masquerading as an upgrade. It is an overall regression when you look at the most important aspect of owning and using a computer: your control over what it does.
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It would also be interesting to read more about Trusted Computing in this context.

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