Romania wasting hundreds of millions of EUR on proprietary software.

Romania wasting hundreds of millions of EUR on proprietary software. http://ur1.ca/4rgo
Seems they no longer need EU funds.

Microsoft Makes Itself at Home in Transylvania - http://bit.ly/1CuwCR
Count Dracula would have been proud of them #romania

Lucian's reaction

http://www.cianblog.com/2009/05/27/my-official-position-the-romanian-government-is-about-to-spend-millions-of-euro-on-proprietary-software/
also here is the romanian version for the above article

http://razvansandu.zando.ro/2009/05/afacerea-cu-licente-software.html

We should start an campaign to kill bug #1 called windows


I posted some ideas for an banner we should spread on all the sites
http://gist.github.com/75033

also here is my idea inspired from kill ie6 campaign

http://mapopa.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-kill-windows-and-ie-first-step.html

imagine if we put these kind of banners on all blogs/sites we have , this way we have ads for free also we can get more exposure to windows/ie users


they are the main target

How to kill windows and ie - first step
On my blog i modified the kill ie6 ra-ajax div and i put
if IE without the 6 [if IE] so now my blogs show that nice div to all ie users to upgrade to an modern wekit/mozilla browser and kill IE and microsoft altogether
I remembered that we have to fix #1 from ubuntu so I put an message for IE users to upgrade their
Operating system to Ubuntu

Nominate Firebird & Flamerobin for SourceForge awards

http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=1696



the sponsor is funny ?
this year there are some options that are at least weird from my point
of view


You are nominating:
Most Likely to Get Users Sued

You are nominating:
Most Likely to Be Ambiguously Accused of Patent Violation

thouse are option for 1April not for a an serious contest

Maybe the beast (Microsoft) does have the sense of dark humor