Archive 17. September 2005

Microsoft's Covert Advertising on NDR

About the covert advertising (well, you can't really talk about sneaking anymore) for Microsoft in election coverage, there has already been written about. But it's quite shocking is the NDR's justification for why Microsoft had to be mentioned:

According to a statement by the Linux Association, the NDR argued in court that Infratest Dimap uses copyrighted databases and graphics from Microsoft for the projections.

Well, then they should just switch to free software, because I really can't imagine what copyrighted databases or graphics should be involved in election coverage - after all, only banal pie charts and bar charts are shown. And I certainly hope that the election itself is not sponsored by Microsoft - and that they therefore have some naming rights there. The whole thing is once again absolutely bananas, what the public broadcaster allows itself.

What does Trusted Computing have to do with Trust?

Sure, everyone knows this and it has gone through all the blogs, but the film is so nicely made that you have to link to it more often: A movie about Trusted Computing. Because the film names exactly the central point: if the industry has decided that they do not trust the user - why should the users trust the industry?

wxWindows Book

There is a book about wxWindows/wxWidgets: Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets - although it focuses on wxWidgets and is primarily for C++ programmers, the wxPython bindings are left out. Nevertheless, it is certainly interesting if you use wxWindows in any form, as the bindings for other languages are always based on the original library.