Allerca, the company genetically engineering cats which are suitable for pet allergic people (to be sold from 2007 on), takes pre-orders now. Yeah! That’s the product the world has waited for :roll:.
(via boingboing)

IBM adn SUN did a study which showed that open source s being used more and more by governments. What a (pleasant) surprise :>>

For the uninformed (yes you Almut :>): Lexmark, a printer manufacturer, wanted to use the DMCA act to protect their printer cartridges(sp?), effectively copyrighting them like a software program. They got turned down in court. And what says Groklaw’d Pamela Jones: “I want you please to notice that one of the judges in this case quoted from Larry Lessig’s “Free Culture.”
Yay, I’ve read Free culture as well. Am I famous now?:>> Nahhm it’s a good book though, and I am glad that people like judges read and understand it.

The previous posted Münster study poses Microsoft as a job motor. This one is even better: open source has all the advantages here. En even better employer :D;)

A future employer doing studies on open source?? 😉

Here is a nice page listing clients for Linux and Win

via boingboing.net:
Fantastic Slashdot thread, in response to MSFT’s Steve Ballmer calling for a $100 PC: build a $100 GNU/Linux PC out of new, readily available parts that already have Free Software drivers.

$18 – Celeron 700MHz 66MHz 128K FCPGA CPU OEM (socket 370)
$25 – ASUS MEW-AM Mainboard Socket 370 supporting Intel Celeron 300~533+ Onboard sound/video
$40 – 1 512mb Stick of PC100 Ram $58 if 2 256mb sticks are required.
$3 – Encore – 10/100 VIA Chipset NIC
$24 – COMP-USA ATX Case w 250W Power Supply.
$2 – Generic heatsink

Just discovered a kind of Indian sorceforge.net. Need to check if it is big…

George Dafermos sent an e-mail to a list I am subscribed to and promoted the Journal of Hyper(+)drome.Manifestation, which is supposed to become an online journal on “the olitics of science and technology, the meaning of the media through which we strive to give meaning to our extended cyber bodies, the irrational dialectic of intellectual property, the metaphysics of technology….”

Mmmh, I wonder whether that sounds interesting or not…