The United States has appealed to China to restore military ties, despite friction about U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. Speaking to reporters at a security conference in Singapore Saturday, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said China’s decision to break off military-to-military contacts earlier this year could undercut regional stability.
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Will Friction Between Microsoft and Open-Source Community Cause Flames?
October 1st, 2009 |
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It’s been a long, hot summer in the open-source world, particularly in the regions where open source and Microsoft butt up against each other. In the midst of this acrimony, Microsoft has launched the Codeplex Foundation, which is aimed at enabling the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open-source communities. Can the foundation cool things down?
– It’s
been a long, hot summer in the open-source world, particularly in the regions
where open source and Microsoft butt up against each other, causing friction
between and within the two camps as their members battle over whether and how
they should interact.
Microsoft
has been all over the ma…
South Africa union urges review of inflation policy
July 19th, 2009 |
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South Africa’s powerful Confederation of South African Trade Unions  (Cosatu) labour federation reiterated its demand on Saturday that the country’s inflation targeting policy be reviewed. Inflation targeting has been a source of friction between the ANC government and its allies in the