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
): “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).
Touring the Balkans to promote Free Software
James Michael Dupont (Mike) is a software developer that is doing a lot to promote Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) in Kosovo and other Balkan countries. This year, Mike invited a first class team to spend a couple of weeks in the southern Balkans, to explain why and how FOSS can play a great role in the social and economic development of those countries.
Free Software solutions to Balkan problems
As I’ve explained in “Touring the Balkans to promote Free Software”, I’ve recently attended a conference in Albania (FreeSB) and one in Kosovo, (SFK10). Both conferences were about Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), which can play a crucial role in the cultural, educational, economic and social development of any emerging country. In this page I describe three talks from those conferences that help to prove this point.