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Fujitsu aims green IT consulting at office, data centre
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RBS to axe 3,500 IT and back office jobs
New wave of job cuts to affect 15 offices across the UK read more »
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I agree, that's how it should work. But I do worry when somebody tries something as daft as this that there may be an equally daft legal reason why - against logic and expectations - they win.Read article
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Control is a figment of one's imagination if a third party is involved in any way. It simple does not apply to outsourced IT services.Read article
Also a big reson why initiatives like ACTA pose such a threat to progress in not only developed but more so to the devloping economies.Read article
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As I've noted before, it's pretty well established that the GNU GPL stands up in the courts: gone are the days when detractors of copyleft could claim it would “never work”. But the GPL is still under attack, only in.... read more »
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