Die südwestspanische Region Extremadura möchte Bill Gates die Stirn bieten. Der Universitätsprofessor Luis Millán Vázquez de Miguel macht mit Geldern der Regionalregierung Werbung für Linux. Sein Department hat unter dem Namen "LinEx" eine CD-ROM verlegt. Darauf befinden sich neben dem Betriebssystem auch die wichtigsten Anwendungen, wie Büroprogramme, ein Browser, E-Mail-Client und Multimedia-Software.[more, taz]

When Ken Pugh, a computer consultant, returned to his home office in Durham, N.C., this summer after spending three weeks hiking the Appalachian Trail in Connecticut and New Hampshire, he discovered a new breed of junk e-mail fighting for his attention among the usual crowd of penis enlargement and Viagra advertisements.

He was the disgruntled recipient of political spam from then wannabe-senator Elizabeth Dole. Pugh, who gets about 25 spam messages a day, had received eight unsolicited e-mails from candidate Dole, outlining her positions on everything from estate taxes (she's against them) to drought relief for North Carolina farmers (she's for it).
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