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Microsoft taken for 1.5 Billion.......

"Like hundreds of other companies large and small, we believe that we properly licensed MP3 technology from its industry recognized licensor -- Fraunhofer," Burt continued. "The damages award seems particularly outrageous when you consider we paid Fraunhofer only $16 million to license this technology." -from MacNN

Kevin Maney has talked about this to some extent in his article . It seems Karlheinz Brandenburg was an employee of Bell Labs way back in 89-90. The plot thickens.. I so love conspiracy theories, dont you? The article even has a link to the list of companies holding a license aka licensees over here. Looks like there is a lot of German Angst on Microsoft. But analyzing this situation from a political point, it seems that the German government has decided to take on MS and in a big way. When you catch a whale, tiny fish in the net is inevitable. But with so many companies being affected, I guess they will all come together and work something out.

1. June 2003, the German Government decides to switch to Linux.

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I looked up this site called SPOUSENOTES, and found the entire premise of the site very interesting. If you dig contemporary living history, this is quite a unique take. Some of the entries are quite fun. The entry by Troll Baby is pretty amusing.

"Validate your windows copy" was the prompt to which my husband clicked "yes". It was then followed by an express installation of IE. DUH! We would have upgraded if we wanted to.. If this is not Muscle, I want to know what this is?

After this very "Soprano" behaviour, our computer flouted a new installation of IE. My son calls the golden ring around the IE LOGO, the "Jupiter ring thingy". Quick review:

• It has more viewing space, with reduced toolbar clutter.
• When you copy something that is already good, just copy it! DO NOT try to "Individualize it.."
• What am I talking about? The tabbed window browsing--Open tabs in the same window or Open tabs in new window - results in page opening in new window. I do not know whether I need to "ADJUST " something.

Personally I am a sturdy design fan. Sturdy What? For instance, I went through a lot of reading and installed APACHE for windows, and now have not messed with the application even once. Likewise PHP for windows. NOTE: These two have been written by non windows users for windows platform and is very robust. Microsoft wake up. Do

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Saturday morning I had this sweet email from my friend Bharathwaj. He stays in Tennessee and they had a recent bout of snow. He had started trying to build a snowman, when he realized that he was not doing as good a job as he wanted to, and ended up constructing a snow Ganesha instead, complete with 'Mousika' (mouse). Next thing he noticed, some Indians in his building started taking photos. He therefore, posted some to me. I found it really good, and here my readers is the photo.