Social Activists and FSF Condemn Microsoft Vista
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| Peter Brown, FSF's executive director, said, "Free software is an issue of
| free speech when we depend upon our computers for social activism and
| political campaigning. Freedoms that we have been defending so vigorously for
| so long are being handed away through the adoption of software that restricts
| user freedom."
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/linux/11511/social-activists-fsf-condemn-microsoft-vista
Speaking of which:
Call to regulate the net rejected
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| Speaking on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme he rejected calls for strict
| control of what is put online.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6968322.stm
It's amazing, isn't it? Governments want to use technology to shut people up.
Yesterday:
Why pay thousands to restrictive software companies when open source programmes
are free, easy to use and green?
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| This week, the Greens have joined together with Friends of the Earth, New
| Internationalist, People and Planet and the Free Software Foundation to call
| on other social and activist groups to reject Microsoft's Vista operating
| system and encourage the use of free software.
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http://www.newstatesman.com/200708280002
The Greenest Game Console
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| Microsoft's Xbox 360, on the other hand, is a veritable power hog, sucking
| down 194 watts, rivaling Takahashi's 42-inch plasma TV.
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http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/2007/08/the-greenest-ga.html
Related/:
Linux, Windows duke it out over energy efficiency
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| Linux appears to have an advantage at the moment: Companies are becoming
| increasingly open to adopting the platform both in the server room and on the
| desktop. Big-name vendors like IBM, HP, and Novell are giving the penguin a
| push in the datacenter, framing it as a flexible and energy-efficient
| platform. The fact that Linux offers greater virtualization opportunities
| than Windows (a sentiment recently expressed by the VMWare CTO Mendel
| Rosenblum) only strengthens the platform's green standing.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/sustainableit/archives/2007/08/linux_and_windo.html?source=rss
GNU/Linux is the most power-efficient OS on Intel hardware
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| According to a keynote given at OSCON, Intel's PowerTOP application has
| allowed developers to get a close-up view of what is sucking power in a
| GNU/Linux system. Apparently they've gotten so much feedback and patches that
| they've been able to extend battery life by an hour since the first release,
| making GNU/Linux the best OS for power saving.
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http://digg.com/linux_unix/GNU_Linux_is_the_most_power_efficient_OS_on_Intel_hardware
Report: Linux, open source greener than Windows
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| A new report from the U.K. Office of Government Commerce about Open
| Source Software Trials in Government, has found that servers running
| Linux could combat the rising problem of e-waste because they last
| up to twice as long as machines running Windows.
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http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1246762,00.html?track=sy184
http://tinyurl.com/38cge3
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