The Arctic Monkeys sold 120,000 copies of their first album, making it the fastest selling album in Britain thanks to their Internet saavy. They promoted sites illegally playing their music and gave out demo copies which quickly fanned out across the Net. Take that RIAA.
IBM DB2 database released as a “light” open-source version, Express-C, along with free community training and support. Limited to 2 processor cores but no database size limit, it will run on Linux or Windows and include venom from DB2’s upcoming relational native-XML release, Viper.
Dugg up at digg.com: Error + Game = 404 Fun
“TOKYO - Japan has decided to levy punitive import tariffs on computer memory chips made by South Korea’s Hynix Semiconductors Inc, providing the latest - and most symbolic - illustration of how life is getting difficult for once-dominant Japanese chips.
Acting on cries for help from domestic companies struggling with increasingly tough foreign competition, Japan has decided to slap countervailing tariffs of 27.2% on Hynix’s dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips… to become effective on Friday and remain in place for five years…
Japanese semiconductors once dominated the world market, grabbing a combined global market share of more than 50% in the second half of the 1980s… But today, their global market share has plunged to about 20%…”
Asahi is giving away beer pouring robots. Oh to live in such a innovative country.
A comprehensive yet concise list of quickly readable reasons to “migrate” to GNU/Linux from any proprietary operating system, Windows, Unix or other. From Bellevue Linux.
And it’s always good to have some handy numbers to back you up: Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)? Look at the Numbers! by David A. Wheeler, Revised as of November 14, 2005.
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