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`30.Oct.2003` Zeit (ANF)	Zeit.de: Programmers from all Lands Unite! "Programmers from all Lands..." is an overview of the mobilization of the open source movement, a comparison of different ideological perspectives of software development and a short exploration of the problems of software patents. An excerpt follows (with the friendly approval of Zeit.de) and the complete article is reachable under the title link: For years only geeks got excited about it. They sat, strewn around the globe, at their computers and programmed, criticized, and discussed via the Internet. The rest of the world had no idea what was there in the 'Net: at first glance just some software. Actually the free thinking online community had created an antithesis to Microsoft, the most powerful and largest software house in the world. [...] [other excerpts not translated, they're a bit longish. -dm] (cg) (Translation: dm) [News message: 30. Oct. 2003, 11:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Oct.2003` Heise	Heise: First Internet provider with P2P-licence The British Internet provider Playlouder MSP announced a legal access of file-sharing services starting next year. To achieve this, the company signed contracts with the respective corporations and some British Indie record companies - currently including the labels V2, PIAS and Ninja Tune, among others. With their planned service, Playlouder offers record companies a solution to profit from filesharing tools. More information can be found in the corresponding German article at Heise Online under the title link. (snx) [News message: 29. Oct. 2003, 13:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Oct.2003` Martin "Skippa" Knott (ANF)	Curious: Amiga-Shop on Mallorca?! Martin Knott who is a reader of amiga-news.de reports: "During my summer holiday on Mallorca I found in Port Andratx an Amiga-shop. The character of the text seemed to be authentic. Unfortunately there were only average clouthing to buy... How it is possible to be mistaken..." (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 17. Oct. 2003, 17:50] [Comments: 1 - 20. Oct. 2003, 10:45] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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