Andreas Broeckmann on Sat, 11 Apr 1998 17:42:59 +0200 (MET DST) |
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<nettime> news from france |
reading the multimedia supplement of the french daily Liberation (on fridays) seems to offer a good skim of what happens (and doesn't happen in online/offline france. check: http://www.liberation.com/multi/ today there is a feature article about an initiative by Microsoft to train 2000 people and get the Microsoft Professional Certificate here in france - a project called Competence 2000 which also involves many state and private higher education institutions. a short article by Roberto Di Cosmo, (dicosmo@ens.fr) of the Ecole Normale Superieur summarises his critique of the monopoly that MS has on the operating systems market and advocates Linux and Unix as attractive alternatives. his full study of MS s hegemonic strategies can be found at www.mmedium.com/dossiers/piege/ greetings from the bibliotheque nationale of this ancient country, -a --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@desk.nl and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@desk.nl