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Nine questions for a Linux Day (or any other moment)

The organizers of the first Linux presentation in an Italian shopping center asked me to prepare a short list of questions to hand out to all the visitors of that shopping center. They specifically asked for

How to NOT implement a website privacy policy

Yesterday, following some a link provided by a friend, I read an article recently published by the Star Online magazine. I wanted to add a comment to that article, but only found in that page the following statement (see [screenshot

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): “If you’d like to post a comment on the issue, you can do so at The Star’s Facebook."

Microsoft video proves that Microsoft Office is like cocaine and has dealers inside schools

On October 6th, 2010 Microsoft published a short video on Youtube titled “A Few Perspectives on OpenOffice.org”. The video is about “Some thoughts from OpenOffice.org users and why they switched back to Microsoft Office” (OpenOffice.org and its offspring LibreOffice are “free-as-in-freedom” alternatives to Microsoft’s Office productivity suite. They have no license costs and natively support OpenDocument, an international standard format for office documents).

A cultural side effect of "what happens on Facebook and Twitter when you die"

British Magazine Pc Pro has an interesting article about something which, they report, happens one and a half million times a year: