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I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Wikileaks seems to be a bit hard-up for cash, so they’re trying a little experiment. They plan to auction off an archive with three years worth of Hugo Chavez’ email. The winner will get a period of embargoed access to break any stories they can find in the files, while Wikileaks will later publish the archive in full. Wikileaks plans to use the profits for their legal defense fund, but they may run into trouble because most reputable news outlets have policies against paying sources.”
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I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Wikileaks seems to be a bit hard-up for cash, so they’re trying a little experiment. They plan to auction off an archive with three years worth of Hugo Chavez’ email. The winner will get a period of embargoed access to break any stories they can find in the files, while Wikileaks will later publish the archive in full. Wikileaks plans to use the profits for their legal defense fund, but they may run into trouble because most reputable news outlets have policies against paying sources.”
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I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Wikileaks seems to be a bit hard-up for cash, so they’re trying a little experiment. They plan to auction off an archive with three years worth of Hugo Chavez’ email. The winner will get a period of embargoed access to break any stories they can find in the files, while Wikileaks will later publish the archive in full. Wikileaks plans to use the profits for their legal defense fund, but they may run into trouble because most reputable news outlets have policies against paying sources.”
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I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Wikileaks seems to be a bit hard-up for cash, so they’re trying a little experiment. They plan to auction off an archive with three years worth of Hugo Chavez’ email. The winner will get a period of embargoed access to break any stories they can find in the files, while Wikileaks will later publish the archive in full. Wikileaks plans to use the profits for their legal defense fund, but they may run into trouble because most reputable news outlets have policies against paying sources.”
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I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Wikileaks seems to be a bit hard-up for cash, so they’re trying a little experiment. They plan to auction off an archive with three years worth of Hugo Chavez’ email. The winner will get a period of embargoed access to break any stories they can find in the files, while Wikileaks will later publish the archive in full. Wikileaks plans to use the profits for their legal defense fund, but they may run into trouble because most reputable news outlets have policies against paying sources.”
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Mathieu Lutfy writes “The CBC is reporting that “Quebec’s open-source software association is suing the provincial government, saying it is giving preferential treatment to Microsoft Corp. by buying the company’s products rather than using free alternatives. “…Government buyers are using an exception in provincial law that allows them to buy directly from a proprietary vendor when there are no options available, but Facil said that loophole is being abused and goes against other legal requirements to buy locally.”. The group also has a press release in English.”
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Mathieu Lutfy writes “The CBC is reporting that “Quebec’s open-source software association is suing the provincial government, saying it is giving preferential treatment to Microsoft Corp. by buying the company’s products rather than using free alternatives. “…Government buyers are using an exception in provincial law that allows them to buy directly from a proprietary vendor when there are no options available, but Facil said that loophole is being abused and goes against other legal requirements to buy locally.”. The group also has a press release in English.”
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Mathieu Lutfy writes “The CBC is reporting that “Quebec’s open-source software association is suing the provincial government, saying it is giving preferential treatment to Microsoft Corp. by buying the company’s products rather than using free alternatives. “…Government buyers are using an exception in provincial law that allows them to buy directly from a proprietary vendor when there are no options available, but Facil said that loophole is being abused and goes against other legal requirements to buy locally.”. The group also has a press release in English.”
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Mathieu Lutfy writes “The CBC is reporting that “Quebec’s open-source software association is suing the provincial government, saying it is giving preferential treatment to Microsoft Corp. by buying the company’s products rather than using free alternatives. “…Government buyers are using an exception in provincial law that allows them to buy directly from a proprietary vendor when there are no options available, but Facil said that loophole is being abused and goes against other legal requirements to buy locally.”. The group also has a press release in English.”
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risinganger writes “BBC News is reporting that a customer had his password changed without his knowledge. After some less than satisfactory service the customer in question changed his password to ‘Llyods is pants’. At some point after that a member of staff changed the password to ‘no it’s not’. Requests to change it back to ‘Llyods is pants’, ‘Barclays is better’ or censorship were met with refusal. Personally I found the original change funny, like the customer did. After all, god forbid a sense of humour rears it’s ugly head in business. What isn’t acceptable is the refusal to change it per the customers requests after that.”
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