Open letter of Steve Jobs on DRM
Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, has posted an open letter on the site of its company. In the letter he claims that Apple will embrace DRM-free music if content providers will allow this. It is quite...
View ArticleOok Vista designer vindt besturingssysteem matig
Op 11 januari had ik een discussie in een besloten forum een korte discussie over de gebruiksvriendelijkheid van Windows. Met name de gebruikersinterface van het besturingssysteem vind ik op sommige...
View ArticleSome not-so-interesting stuff
While browsing a website, I came across an article about how Microsoft is scared for the upcoming domination of Linux. The article dates from 1998, which is nine years ago. While the domination of...
View ArticleMinimal number of buttons at Apple
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on the battle against buttons at Apple which is lead by CEO Steve Jobs. The article explains why he thinks buttons are evil and how various important...
View ArticleNew OpenOffice.org release
A new version 2.3 of OpenOffice.org has been released. I have not yet tried the new version, so I’m not sure if it is really a n improvement over the previous version. Recently, there was some good...
View ArticleSCO almost bankrupt
SCO has applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which means the company can reorganize without having to fear from its creditors. It is very intersting to read that Darl McBride, SCO’s CEO, now...
View ArticleHuidige stemcomputers worden niet meer gebruikt
De actiegroep ‘wij vertouwen stemcomputers niet’ zal vermoedelijk verheugd zijn met het besluit van staatsecretaris Bijleveld om de goedkeuring voor stemcomputers in te trekken. Daarmee lijkt het einde...
View ArticleNovell creates OpenOffice.org fork
It seems that Novell created a fork of OpenOffice.org. The cause of this action is the fact that the Sun Microsystems currently controls the entire development process of OpenOffice.org and requires...
View ArticleIrrelevant quoting at Groklaw
Last week, PJ from Groklaw wrote an article on the voting process for the OOXML format as a ISO-standard. For an unknown reason, she thought is was necessary to refer to a post on my weblog on a speech...
View ArticleEthical problems with Wifi experiment
The Dutch computer magazine Computer Idee! (intended for novice computer users) is critized for an article in which they investigated the behaviour of people on public wireless networks. The editors of...
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