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+               <title>ColonHelp produser sue WordPress to silence critic</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ColonHelp_produser_sue_WordPress_to_silence_critic.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ColonHelp_produser_sue_WordPress_to_silence_critic.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks to a blog post by
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://ramblingfoo.blogspot.no/2012/10/a-shitstorm-is-comming.html&quot;&gt;Eddy
+Petrișor&lt;/a&gt;, I became aware of yet another &quot;alternative medicine&quot;
+company using legal intimidation tactics to scare off critics.
+According to the originating blog post about the detox &quot;cure&quot;
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://insulaindoielii.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/colon-help-sues-wordpress/&quot;&gt;ColonHelp
+and its producers Zenyth Pharmaceuticals actions&lt;/a&gt;, the producer
+sues Wordpress to get rid of the critical information.  To check if
+the story was for real, I contacted Automattic, the company behind
+wordpress.com, and they reply was &quot;We can confirm that Zenyth is
+seeking a court order against WordPress / Automattic.  However, we
+don&#39;t believe the Terms of Service have been violated in this
+matter&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The story seem to be simply that a blogger checked the scientific
+foundation for a popular health product in Rumania, ColonHelp, and
+reported that there was no reason at all to believe it improved the
+health of its users.  This caused the company behind the product,
+Zenyth Pharmaceuticals, to use legal intimidation to try to silence
+the critic, instead of presenting its views and scientific foundation
+to argue its side.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is the usual story, and the Zenyth Pharmaceuticals company
+deserve everyone to know how it failed to act properly.  Lets hope the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect&quot;&gt;Streisand
+effect&lt;/a&gt; can make it rethink its strategy.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;What is the harm, you might think.  I suggest you take a look at
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whatstheharm.net/detoxification.html&quot;&gt;a list of
+victims of detoxification&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Kontant betaling, takk!</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kontant_betaling__takk_.html</link>
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                <title>Kontant betaling, takk!</title>
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-       <item>
-               <title>Debian Edu interview: Giorgio Pioda</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;After a long break in my row of interviews with people in the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
-community, I finally found time to wrap up another.  This time it is
-Giorgio Pioda, which showed up on the mailing list at the start of
-this year, asking questions and inspiring us to improve the first time
-administrators experience with Skolelinux. :) The interview was
-conduced in May, but I only found time to publish it now.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I have a PhD in chemistry but since several years I work as teacher
-in secondary (15-18 year old students) and tertiary (a kind of &quot;light&quot;
-university) schools. Five years ago I started to manage a Learning
-Management Service server and slowly I got more and more involved with
-IT. 3 years ago the graduating schools moved completely to Linux and I
-got the head of the IT for this. The experience collected in chemistry
-labs computers (for example NMR analysis of protein folding) and in
-the IT-courses during university where sufficient to start. Self
-training is anyway very important&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I live in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, and the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spse.ch/&quot;&gt;SPSE school&lt;/a&gt; (secondary) is a very
-special sport school for young people who try to became sport pro (for
-all sports, we have dozens of disciplines represented) and we are
-recognised by the Olympic Swiss Organisation.
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
-project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Looking for Linux / Primary Domain Controller (PDC) I found it
-already several years ago. But since the system was still not
-Kerberized and since our schools relies strongly on laptops I didn&#39;t
-use it. I plan to introduce it in the next future, probably for the
-next school year, since the squeeze release solved this security
-hole.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Many. First of all there is a strong and living community that is
-very generous for help and hints.  Chat help is crucial, together with
-the mailing list.  Second. With Skolelinux you get an already well
-engineered platform and you don&#39;t have to start to build up your PDC
-and your clients from GNU/scratch; I&#39;ve already done this once and I
-can tell it, it is hard. Third, since Skolelinux is a standard
-platform, it is way easier to educate other IT people and even if the
-head IT is sick another one could pick up the task without too much
-hassle.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The only real problem I see is that it is a little too less
-flexible at client level. Debian stable is rocky and desirable, but
-there are many reasons that force for another choice. For example the
-need of new drivers for new PC, or the need for a specific OS for some
-devices that have specific software packages for another specific
-distribution (I have such a case for whiteboards that have only
-Ubuntu packages). Thus, I prepared compatibility packages educlient
-and eduroaming, hoping not to use them ;-)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I have a Debian Stable PDC at school (Kerberos, NIS, NFS) with
-mixed Debian and Ubuntu clients. If you think that this triad
-combination is exotic... well I discovered right yesterday that
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/Perceus-Report.html&quot;&gt;Perceus&lt;/a&gt;
-has the same...&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For myself I run Debian wheezy/sid, but this combination is good
-only I you have enough competence to fix stuff for yourself, if
-something breaks.  Daily I use texmacs, gnumeric, a little bit of R
-statistics, kmplot, and less frequently OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;P&gt;I think that the only real argument that school managers &quot;hear&quot; is
-cost reduction. They don&#39;t give too much weight on quality, stability,
-just because they are normally not open to change.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Students adapts very quickly to GNU/Linux (and for them being able
-to switch between different OS is a plus value); teachers and managers
-don&#39;t.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;We decided to move to Linux because students at our school have own
-laptop and we have the responsibility to keep the laptop ready to use;
-we were really unsatisfied with Microsoft since every Monday we had 20
-machine to fix for viral infections... With Linux this has been
-reduced to zero, since people installs almost only from official
-repositories. I think that our special needs brought us to Linux.
-Those who don&#39;t have such needs will hardly move to Linux.&lt;/p&gt;
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