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If you are looking for Lattice part GAL16VBB-15LJ We have 100 new ones for sale – no reasonable offer refused

Interesting how the cigarette companies are circumventing the advertising ban. The local shop (Nasareen Dha) is now having a new till area complete with a large cigarette display – all sponsored by the cigarette companies.

Thank you Raed for providing a link to a new Iraqi blogger, Zainab. I liked Raed description of her as a wmoan. Interesting about how burglars use grenades in Iraq and the guy who blew his leg off by carrying one in his pocket!

More on the SCO/LINUX saga here is what a certail Bill Baxter predicted in 2000 Bill Baxter – Subject: Not Open Source, I’m afraid. ( Feb 23, 2000, 00:01:50 )

Note that these releases are not open source. SCO retain rights to the source code. Maybe they even hope that some of their code will wind up in linux, so that they can then sue, and render the Linux license terms invalid. Or would they be that spiteful? My guess == yes
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