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Matti Saastamoinen originally shared this post:This is something! French law forbids the sale of one product to be tied to the sale of another, i.e. sale of a laptop to the sale of operating system (in this case Windows Vista), and French court has now put this into practice.

Now the interesting question is, could this set a legal precedent in other E.U. countries too? Are there conflicting legal precedents in other countries? Who would try this in Finland?Lenovo ordered to pay €1920 for making French laptop buyer pay for Windows tooA French laptop buyer has won a refund from Lenovo after a four-year legal battle over the cost of a Windows license he didn't want. The judgment could open the way for PC buyers elsewhere in Europe t...

Wat een schande. Eerst zitten ze achter de ISP's en de websitebouwers (SOPA, PIPA), en nu dat niet werkt, gaan ze maar achter de consument aan. Geldwolven.'Onbeveiligde wifi-netwerken faciliteren piraterij'In een zaak tegen illegale downloaders worden in de Verenigde Staten voor het eerst ook 'onachtzame' bezitters van onbeveiligde wifi-verbindingen aangeklaagd. Zij zouden internetpiraterij faciliteren.

Chris Cho originally shared this post:Facebook finally added a new button which makes more sense than the Like button.
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Eindelijk een bedrijf dat niet klakkeloos aan Microsoft betaalt. Ik ben benieuwd naar de uitspraak.Microsoft schrapt 1 Androidpatent voor rechtszaak | WebwereldMicrosoft laat één patentclaim tegen Android vallen net voor de aanvang van zijn rechtszaak tegen e-readerleverancier Barnes&Noble. De eerste zitting is vandaag.

+Koen Meersman FYISetting up a wireless virtualisation host with Debian Squeeze and KVM | johanv.orgAt the moment, I have two 'servers' on my attic. A file server, which is an old laptop running Freenas 8, and a server for printing, scanning and backups, which is a 10 year old PC running Ubu...

Belgian beer fail in bar 1 at #fosdem. :) http://identi.ca/url/66037532

Belgian beer fail in bar 1 at #fosdem. :) http://identi.ca/url/66037518

Robin Houdmeyers originally shared this post:Cool skype detailSkype - Changing the default chat font to Comic Sans makes the...Skype - Changing the default chat font to Comic Sans makes the smiley sad.
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Had a very nice day at #fosdem with +Koen Meersman and +Roel Vercammen. I even had a short talk with the famous +Fabian Scherschel of +Sixgun Productions :) Too bad I couldn't stay the whole weekend.

Ended up in the ada devroom with +Koen Meersman .

Tip for #fosdem: bring your own beer glass :)

Will be at mozilla dev room at 13:30

@ bar2

Libreoffice dev directions. #fosdem

At #fosdem

@ruiseabra Welcome to Belgium! :*)

#censorship #googleGoogle Begins Country-Specific Blog Censorshipbonch writes "Google will begin redirecting blogs to country-specific URLs. Blog visitors will be redirected to a URL specific to their location, with content subject to their country's censorship laws. A support post on Blogger explains the change: 'Over the coming weeks you might notice that the URL of a blog you're reading has been redirected to a country-code top level domain, or "ccTLD." For example, if you're in Australia and viewing [blogname].blogspot.com, you might be redirected to [...

Am I the only one having troubles with #google reader and #firefox 9?

I hope our 2 chickens will survive this cold week.

RT @torproject We've been called torrorists before, but seriously, this? http://ur1.ca/7z5j2