Gone now!
Cheers
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On 28/07/06 17:46, Benedikt Wildenhain wrote:
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 05:13:10PM +0100, Jon Grant wrote:
I saw [0] ImCoSys mobile was available (298 Euro + VAT and delivery
cost) with a 2 month queue on orders at present which looked quite a
good mobile.
I wouldn't call this phone a GNU
Hi!
[...]
The BBC have got a media player for playing recently-broadcast
programmes, but unfortunately because of the way the programmes are then
passed over to BBC Worldwide to be commercialised, the player is
DRM'ed to the hilt and actively destroys downloaded media after 7 days,
from what
Dave Crossland wrote:
On 10/10/06, Matt Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my day, we'd write our SWF files in hex editors, upload them via
Gopher to Compuserve over UUCP and then relax with a nice glass of
gin.
What what, Compuserve? X.25 networks were where it was at, kids.
lol ;p
Hi,
Alex Hudson elucidated on 08/11/06 09:43:
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 03:25 +, Jon Grant wrote:
All looks like a little improvement, hope they release the rest eventually
I got this reply from Matt Rozen at Adobe:
Adobe doesn't currently have plans to open source Adobe Flash Player
Hi Rob,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] elucidated on 09/11/06 16:42:
Quoting Matt Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[...]
I find Lessig quite responsive.
Yes I've found Paula and the others I've dealt with quite responsive. They
haven't always agreed with me, but they have taken input onboard and
explained
when
Hiya,
MJ Ray elucidated on 16/11/06 16:21:
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 13:44 +, Jon Grant wrote:
Without wanting to cause a stir with any cultural imperialism, perhaps
there are more important things than Welsh and Irish i18n..
Of course there are: famine, disease, poverty and so
Ian Lynch elucidated on 02/01/07 18:11:
If you have a view against Software Patents you might like to consider
signing up to this formal Petition:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/softwarepatents/
Hi. that area of the site appears to be down at present; it must have
been overwhelmed.. ;)
Jon
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Hi,
It's chicken-and-egg. Open formats won't be adopted until there's
support for them. I would certainly feel uneasy about selling a DVD,
authored in MPEG format, in the knowledge that I haven't paid the
royalties required to do so. Windows users may be immune to prosecution
but we aren't.
Don't think anyone has forwarded this petition response to the list yet.
(And no injunction on reporting it!)
It did well with 488 signatories for a petition with /govenment/ spelt
wrong! (Let's hope they pick-up David Bartlett's great English
dictionary for Firefox ;)
10 Downing Street
Hi!
Lots of good points Chris.
Chris Croughton elucidated on 01/03/07 16:05:
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:14:58PM +, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:00, Chris Croughton wrote:
Very few of
the people I know who I would want to send audio files have even heard
of Ogg, let
I would like help in publicising this as widely as possible, so please
submit that to news sites and pass it on to other relevent mailing lists and
forums.
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Richard_Stallman_s_GPLv3_Transcript_1st_April_2007_is_online
Feel free to digg everyone.
Cheers, Jon
Hiya,
Ciaran O'Riordan wrote on 20/05/07 14:58:
Jon Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
GNU supporting Adobe's Flash format is a shame.
The goal of the GNU project is to make it as easy as possible for people to
choose to never use non-free software. This means we need free software to
do
Hi Robin,
As I understand it - correct me if I'm wrong - Red Hat isn't requiring
people to remove trademarks from GPL-covered source code, which would be
against the GPL. Rather, they are requiring people to remove trademarks
from images, banner files and such things, which have not been
Nice to see BSI already doing the open thing by making us use an
MS-Word comment file...
http://www.bsi-global.com/upload/Standards%20%20Publications/ICT/bs25900-dpc/Draft_ISOIEC_25900Commentform.doc
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,100091,39288368,00.htm
Despite the attempts to make the PC as efficient as possible, PC World
has attracted some criticism for its decision to base the desktop around
Microsoft's Vista operating system which has been labelled by some
industry watchers as
Hi,
(snip)
Here, Here. In fact one of the things I think we should be doing is
lobbying BBC, ITV C4 about Kangaroo, so they can jump in while
they have the chance and design it using Free Software.
I asked the FSFE about why they didn't do much (if anything) about
iPlayer originally,
Hi,
On 06/01/2008, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 06/01/2008, Jon Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is even worse if we consider the FSF's Gnash (GPLFlash) shoring up
the propreitary Adobe Flash format. I asked FSF about this, and they
basically said it was too established
Interesting points. I reply to just one below.
snip
Do you not think that the bbc *should* be putting some effort into gnash
development?
I think the BBC should, yes, since that's the fastest way it will
support viewing the streaming iPlayer with free software.
To me it seems the simplest
snip
... Adobe has said that it tightly controls Flash
runtimes for the same reason Sun kept a grip on Java runtimes: because
works the same on all runtimes is compelling.
A few links, from the first John Dowdell comments on the forking of
runtimes point:
http://ncannasse.free.fr/?p=36
On 11/01/2008, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Carsten Agger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but is there some sort of directory
of free software jobs in the UK?
Some appear at http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linuxjobs
Other than that, it's a case
On 08/01/2008, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 02:23:46PM +, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
I'd like to see the FSF and all its advocates stop their effort at
retronaming Linux as GNU+Linux
Retronaming? Are you kidding? Next you'll be saying that Free Software
is an
Hi,
On 13/01/2008, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jon Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If i go into a web-cafe and go online and use Firefox on KDE desktop
is anyone obliged to offer me the source code? [...]
No, but I think they are obliged to let you see the copyright holders
Hi
On 13/01/2008, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
The Affero license would make this a requirement even if you're providing
that
software remotely over the web, as I understand things. So, if you even
gave
someone access to Firefox through a remote desktop connection,
Evening,
On 13/01/2008, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 02:25:56PM +, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
The recent thread on the lugmaster list to which I'm referring is
directly connected to FSF(E)'s pursual of the GNU+Linux moniker.
You mean GNU/Linux? Why does
Hi,
On 13/01/2008, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Not promoting the idea of software freedom is damaging.
When he says things that mean The Linux OS started in 1991 because I
wrote a kernel for fun he is misleading people about the difference
between an OS and a kernel which
Can't find the right email in the thread to reply too, so sorry this
isn't directly following mjr's other email !
contractoruk.com is a good reference website I use. I have a ltd
company I work through with clients. I'm not aware of the details of a
coop, but I presume it is like all being
Evening,
Anyone know if it is possible to get a refund for Apple's Mac OS X..?
I'd love to buy one of their Air laptops if there is a way to get it
pre-loaded with GNU+Linux or a refund... got a USB stick with Kubuntu
ready to go.. ;)
I've added something to my web about it, also got this on
Hi Dave,
On 17/01/2008, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 17/01/2008, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 09:55:10PM +, Jon Grant wrote:
Anyone know if it is possible to get a refund for Apple's Mac OS X..?
I'd love to buy one of their Air laptops
Hi Noah,
Thanks for the reply.
On 17/01/2008, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 09:55:10PM +, Jon Grant wrote:
Anyone know if it is possible to get a refund for Apple's Mac OS X..?
I'd love to buy one of their Air laptops if there is a way to get it
pre
Hi Noah,
On 17/01/2008, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:49:02PM +, Jon Grant wrote:
Good point. I'd never buy from ebuyer though, their customer service
is too shoddy, like I found when I purchased from OverclockersUK
(Scan, Dabs and Dell are the only
Just replying to my own email!
Kubuntu has significant issues with my Dell laptop too..
http://jguk.org/2007/11/ubuntu-killed-my-laptop.html
I tried again last night with 7.10, i put /boot on a USB stick, and
the GRUB on the MBR of that USB stick. GRUB appeared, but nothing
would boot,
I'll just jump in here.
AIUI, OS X is significantly cheaper than Microsoft Windows, so the refund is
likely to be negligible compared to the cost of the machine.
Actually, I find the whole refund thing slightly curious - you wouldn't go
to Ford and say give me a refund, I want to install my
Hi. I'll just jump in here..
Sure, you can put in a new hard disk and memory, but that's about
all you can do. You cant replace the mainboard, processors, PSU etc.
This is a very good point. IMHO it is the reason why the open PC
platform will ultimately dominate. It is lucky Microsoft do not
Meanwhile I don't think the ability to tweak or upgrade will ensure the
dominance of the PC platform. The upgraders and tweakers are a tiny
minority. Most people simply don't care.
Yeah, I think it simply comes down to cost ultimately. and GNU+Linux
being available for no-charge is the main
Hi,
On 21/01/2008, Andrew Savory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
On 1/18/08, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:26:05PM +0100, Andrew Savory wrote:
I think it's in Freakonomics where the idea of common wisdom is
demolished. And I think it's on the Apple
Hi
On 21/01/2008, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 12:30:14PM +, Dave Crossland wrote:
Lessig is a famous public speaker who promotes free software - is an
FSF board member, in fact - and uses a Macbook Pro and Keynote.
This is embarrassing.
I am shocked
Hi
On 21/01/2008, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 01:06:31PM +0100, Andrew Savory wrote:
Accounting is the only one for which there are no good enough
equivalents.
I would argue that the lack of CMYK support in GIMP along with a few
other issues prevent
On 21/01/2008, Andrew Savory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
On 1/21/08, Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Accounting is the only one for which there are no good enough
equivalents.
Sql-Ledger and LedgerSMB solve most of the problems.
Unfortunately we also need to fit in with the
On 21/01/2008, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Savory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately we also need to fit in with the requirements of our
accountants and bookkeepers. Again, it's a critical mass issue. The first
fully FLOSS accountant could make millions.
When was the last
Just replying to my own post.. ;)
On 21/01/2008, Jon Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
On 21/01/2008, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 12:30:14PM +, Dave Crossland wrote:
Lessig is a famous public speaker who promotes free software - is an
FSF board
On 22/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
A sustained campaign on this topic would be very worthwhile, because
getting propagandists to use free software will pay dividends.
Yes this would be a very good idea.
Will anyone from FSF,
On 22/01/2008, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 12:31:57PM +, Jon Grant wrote:
Will anyone from FSF, FSFE, Gnome or other lead it though? (I'm happy
to donate some money towards it)
Sure, that's a great idea.
https://www.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom
On 22/01/2008, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:10:11PM +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
A friend of mine sympathetic to softrware freedom movement but who
lately pointedly says open source notes that Jefferson campaigned to
abolish slavery while owning slaves,
Hi.
Chris Croughton wrote on 26/01/08 14:47:
[...]
bandwidth of the mail server
bandwidth of recipients
mailbox size on servers
mailbox size in user stored mailboxes
time to load mailboxes
I don't think bandwidth is really an issue these days. Most
considerations went out the
Chris Croughton wrote on 27/01/08 13:09:
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:06:01PM +, Alex Hudson wrote:
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 22:10 +, Jon Grant wrote:
I don't think there is any noticeable difference in Thunderbird loading
my mailbox or email msg which are in HTML (CPU increases in last
Hi
If a business is using proprietary software, they can't switch in one
day, or one year, even one decade.
Good point.
Whats important is that they are switching because they recognise the
social problem of proprietary software and value their freedom, and
are _sincere_ about switching.
Hi.
This means startups have no reason not to use free software;
substantial intimately-computer related business have done fresh
starts with free software for at least a decade, and I think we'll see
more 'regular' businesses switching as soon as accounting/payroll and
stock control (ie,
[Resent as somehow the cc was set to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] when I first posted]
Hi
On 27/01/2008, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 27/01/2008, Jon Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The
question has to be if OpenOffice will support exporting Liberation - MS
font names.
No, trademark
Hi.
No, I'm running mutt on my home machine, which fetches it using
fetchmail. CPU time is not a problem, disk reading time is.
Are you running on a 286 or so?
Did I say CPU time is not a problem? Oh yes, I did.
Your mailbox will most likely largely be
in RAM too.
Why would it
Also, I'm not convinced by someone else's argument which seemed to be
roughly that several non-free-software MUAs (Outlook, Thunderbird (OK,
so there's IceDove), MSN, Googlemail, Yahoo) send HTML by default.
Their operators should fix that configuration error IMO.
That was mine :) Do you
Hi.
On 27/01/2008, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 27/01/2008, Jon Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think Sun is genuinely becoming a totally free software company,
more so than any other major free software company in fact, but its
just on a decade timescale.
Too
Apart from the Facebook claim, I think the above are all repeats. Not
saying one way or the other on their merit, but please can someone
post evidence to support any of them if you know it.
Personally I don't think it's necessary to post evidence of obvious
things. Just look at the market and
Hi.
I don't see a simple request as alienating, nor on-server-conversion.
It's far better than a few people flaming them to hell.
I don't see why anyone will be flamed, if they are sending a
plain-text+HTML email. I would welcome them onto the list, and not be
so stubborn as to try take them
On 31/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Ciaran O'Riordan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Cathedral and the Bazaar ?
Bleh. From what I've heard, it's not good.
It's not, no. Raymond starts from a position of ignorance about how
cathedrals were built and bazaars operated and
http://exploringfreedom.org/2008/01/03/what-really-happens-when-seaworld-is-closed/
made me laugh (NSFW)
What is the story behind that photo? She looks a bit Natalie Portman.
Seems to be Matt Lee's website.
Cheers, Jon
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I'm not sure what people desire - I'm not even sure that many people
have even considered this. I've mentioned in another thread recently
that I don't regard IT as a properly-working market just now. So, I'm
still interested in good research. When I stop being interested in
the research,
Hi Ian,
[...]
prices are unsustainable) and as more things move to be web based it's
less inconvenient to change from a Windows desktop. This has already
forced MS to reduce the price of OEM Windows for these devices. Reducing
the price will delay change but it won't in the end stop it as
I
Hi Ian, Thanks for the reply.
Since around 30-40% of M$'s profitability is selling Windows, if the
price falls from £70 an OEM to £3 its going to have a very significant
effect. Initially, paradoxically more people might actually get legal so
difficult to be sure what the effect would be
On 02/02/2008, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jon Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure what people desire - I'm not even sure that many people
have even considered this. [...]
If you're not sure, there isn't a requirement to reply to say that.
I had hoped it might discourage
On 05/02/2008, Tim Dobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shouldn't we[1] be be getting him to be a Free Software ambassador or
similar?
Celebrity endorsements are all the rage these days for charities etc.,
and Stephen Fry isn't stupid - it would be better to have Stephen Fry
representing
[snip]
Do we have any UK personalities to advermarket GNU+Linux and Firefox etc?
Not that I know of really, but what level personality do we need?
The MP for Loughborough [Labour], Andy Reed, supports Free Software to
some extent (I was shocked when he knew what the Free Software
Apparently Wesley Crusher of Star Trek is a FOSS fan.
Bit chubbier, but same old Will Crusher!
http://www.wilwheaton.net/
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/21/intellectual.property
# Cory Doctorow
# guardian.co.uk,
# Thursday February 21 2008
Once the ideas have escaped there's no getting them back ...
Intellectual property is one of those ideologically loaded terms
that can cause an argument just by
Hi Lawrence,
Just looking at your page:
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/02/on_why_i_am_not_running.html
Did you know the site is embedding a proprietary Adobe Flash file there?
I notice the video isn't offered in a modern open format like Theora
(or even any video file we could download and
Hi,
On 29/02/2008, Lee Braiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 29 February 2008 15:37:28 Chris Croughton wrote:
If you want ordinary people to look at what you produce, do it in the
format they are most likely to be able to use. Doing it in some weird
new format they've never heard
This talk looks interesting, I'm a embedded/mobile developer myself.
Anyone else heading down form the list?
Cheers, Jon
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Date: 1 Apr 2008 14:41
Subject: [ORG-discuss] Fwd: UKUUG - free Evening talk - OpenMoko - 9th
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Date: 2 Apr 2008 10:21
Subject: [ORG-discuss] Office Open XML aproved by ISO
To: Open Rights Group open discussion list
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Here is the official press release from ISO.
Did anyone make it? If so, any good?
I asked before the event, but they weren't able to make a video of it
or get slides available.
Cheers, Jon
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Great notes! Perhaps you can put them on a web page somewhere, even at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for their web page.
cards almost everywhere. There is a 3D graphics chip, a 640x480 280dpi
Seems to be a S-Media 3362 GPU, nice to see it doing OpenGL ES 1.x, I
hope it does EGL too. I wish the Neo was
Sounds interesting. I don't think I've seen the talk before, last one
I saw was at Edinburgh Uni back in 2005 or so.
Referring to the GNU/Linux naming controversy in the abstract does
sound like it might be a bit of preaching to the converted attendees
though (Emacs style ;)
Cheers, Jon
Hi
On 14/04/2008, Simon Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:48:26PM +0100, Jon Grant wrote:
Referring to the GNU/Linux naming controversy in the abstract does
sound like it might be a bit of preaching to the converted attendees
Or setting people who don't know too
Hi
2008/4/24 Kevin Donnelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 18:32, Noah Slater wrote:
Are OLPC really about to scrap Linux for Windows?
[...]
On a totally irrelevant sidenote, I think OpenMoko is going to go the same
way
if it's not careful.
The same way of not being
Hi, sorry for the late reply, just catching up.
[...]
I can't think of
any instances of his damage doing myself, and to be frank the FSF
sponsoring Adobe's Flash format in their pure Flash GPLFlash/Gnash
GNU project (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/) seems far more worthy
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page16957
The National Archives does not currently plan to convert any records
to Microsoft Office Open XML format.
Seems to counter earlier announcements they made:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/164.htm
The ongoing collaboration will also see The
Hi
Ian Lynch wrote on 01/03/09 16:21:
[..]
To be honest the biggest turn off for me about the whole AFFS is all the
nit-picking pedantry about procedure and constitutions. It's worse than
working for the government :-)
Wasn't that just one member in particular though? Same thing occured
with
Andrew Savory wrote on 05/03/09 15:18:
[..]
As a member who has contributed significant money and time to the AFFS in
the past, I would be personally very angry should the AFFS funds be lost in
this way, without first attempting a resolution such as donating those funds
to the FSFE or
On 10 August 2010 14:32, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote:
People may be interested in this..
Original Message
Subject: OSS Watch's August newsletter published
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:34:03 +0100
From: Elena Blanco elena.bla...@oucs.ox.ac.uk
Reply-To: Elena Blanco
On 13 September 2010 15:59, Sam Tuke samt...@fsfe.org wrote:
Today FSFE has launched a new campaign to remove advertising of proprietary
PDF readers from government websites.
Campaign: http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders
This page looks good, but is incredibly wide. Not usable on modern
On 16 September 2010 11:17, Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote:
[.]
For filing of certain types of accounts online, and you have to do it
online, www.hmrc.gov.uk recently provided a PDF that was a series of
forms, with it doing calculations for you, and then it securely uploaded
the
UK Gov IT chief backs open source, small business
The UK government’s deputy Chief Information Officer has outlined
plans to hand public sector IT contracts over to small businesses and
suppliers of open-source and cloud-based solutions in an attempt to
balance the books.
Is anyone available and interested to do some GTK and Graphics
programming for a project my company is going for? The work would be
done on a full-time basis in London. We don't have anyone available
currently so thought I would ask here.
I realise this isn't a recruitment list, but thought I
Hi all,
Am looking for some where to buy a new netbook/notebook for use with
GNU+Linux (current dev machine, Compaq 702EA intel atom is on last
legs)
Found only two shops doing sans-microsoft laptops, linux emporium, and
novatech. All of those on offer are pretty heavy, or netbooks from old
gen
On 3 January 2011 05:21, mgtdee margaret.derring...@googlemail.com wrote:
I bought a DELL laptop online last year from Dell itself with UBUNTU on it.
They sell it with Ubuntu or MS.
Margaret
A good tip!
I went with Acer 3820T (13 notebook, 4GB RAM, 500GB HD), ~6hr
battery, 1.8KG in the end.
On 3 February 2011 09:29, Michael Dorrington
michael.dorring...@gmail.com wrote:
Richard Stallman, aka rms, founder of the Free Software Foundation
(FSF), GNU's Not Unix (GNU) and the Free Software Movement is doing a
speaking tour of Great Britain (unfortunately, Northern Ireland is not
Hello Everyone
I have been trying to get a refund for the un-used/un-registered
Windows7 which came with my Acer laptop. The retailer indicates only
AcerUK can refund. Purchased on 6 Jan, I've been communicating about
refund since mid Jan.
Unfortunately AcerUK will only refund their cost
Any additional London weekend date? Perhaps the free Sunday? I can't
spare the time from work. Cheers, Jon
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On Saturday, 12 February 2011, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote:
I will be in London March 5-8. Just one speech.
If the speech was 5 or 6 march in London, then I would be able to make it.
I am looking for someone I can stay with. Know anyone?
I think Dinis may be better option, our house
Sam Tuke wrote, On 10/02/11 16:18:
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 22:42:07 Jon Grant wrote:
If anyone has any suggestions, or examples how it has been achieved in
the UK before I would love to hear.
I found this old case, but was purchased direct from Dell:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6144782.stm
http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/ sell a variety of laptops and desktops
without compulsory Windows7 OS I see.
Perhaps we need a wiki page which can be kept up to date with a short
list of manufactures worth buying from in the UK?
I've posted the links on my blog for the meantime:
Great to see they prepared their Open Standards Open Opportunities
Consultation_FINAL.pdf In LibreOffice
Would have been even better if they had uploaded the Annex A template
in OpenDocument format.
Regards, Jon
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