November 2006

Bolivia: Governors Defect, Bill Gates and Evo

Your semi-regular Bolivia update.  The governors from six of the nine departments (states) have cut all communications with the federal government.  The six represent the economically strongest regions of the country.  MAS, Morales political party, amended the rules of the Constituent Assembly to require a simple majority, instead of 2/3 majority, to amend the Constitution.  […]

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MS Linux partnership?

Dad passed me along the link to the slashdot discussion of Microsoft’s partnership with Novell.  (Usually, its me sending him the slashdot link).  On the face of it, the major part of the announcement concerns patent rights MS holds – specifically that it will not assert them against open source developers.  The Technology Liberation Front

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