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2nd June 2001 Archive

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  • Country code chiefs go nuclear on ICANN

    Won't play with DNSO

    When we suggested last November that the country code registrars could withdraw from ICANN, we commended it as a threat to be taken seriously. Such a secession would deal a terminal blow to ICANN's authority as the sole domain name policy maker, and one national registrar described it at the time as the "nuclear option." For …

    Music and Media 2 Jun 2001, 07:02

  • Ballmer: “Linux is a cancer”

    Contaminates all other software with Hippie GPL rubbish

    Microsoft CEO and incontinent over-stater of facts Steve Ballmer said that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," during a commercial spot masquerading as a media interview with the Chicago Sun-Times Friday. Ballmer was trying to articulate his concern, whether real …

    Software 2 Jun 2001, 18:19

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