And again Zensursula (German Federal Minister for family, youth etc.) hits the news with rubbish. After her FUD campaign regarding legislating internet censorship in Germany on basis of fighting child pornography on the internet, she now wants to set up a rule book of behaviour on the internet.
There has been recently some fuss around Mono being included into the repositories by Debian and Linux, most notably coming from Stallman / FSF. While Stallman always seem to have something going on to rant about, this one may be a little different. Most notably because Mono lets you run some Microsoft languages in a Linux OS. And as we all know, usually Microsoft + Linux isn’t a happy theme. Same goes with Ubuntu.
A not so surprising, and maybe even expected by some people, news or rather blog entry was published yesterday, 7th July 2009, by Google on their blogspot page. This entry describes plans of Google to raise their Google Chrome browser to the next level, Google Chrome Operating System. For many Google users it was obvious, or at least expectable, that Google will sooner or later break into the Operating System business too, coupled with all their online apps they already have. If this however is surprising news for you, then you probably should wake up and open your eyes too.
BT, who were a lot in media coverage recently due to their unsolicited deep packet inspection testing with their partners Phorm, yesterday (6th July 2009) cancelled their Phorm program. To many this is a welcome move by BT. Phorm, or rather their investors, replied with a falling share price of Phorm (PHRM on London’s AIM). Coincidence or purposely one day before MPs and some peers begin an investigation of internet privacy?
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