twelfth of may twenty seventh overnight a dangerous computer virus has spread around the globe want to cry is the name the cyber criminals have given the virus with which they blackmail their victims by blocking their computer data the ransom three hundred dollars to be paid in bitcoins. more than two hundred thousand computers on all continents are affected by this attack from the german rail network georgia bond to the ministry of the interior in russia and the japanese car manufacturer of honda in great britain some hospitals even have to switch to emergency operational. how can one single know where to move tenuously paralyzed companies hospitals and even intelligence services all over the world the answer has

a name microsoft all the victims use the same software all are vulnerable to the same way all are dependent on one single company as is every state administration in europe. what are the consequences this is what we've the team of journalists from investigate europe wanted to find out the results are alarming. this is about the data of all citizens everyone is affected and the dependency is much deeper than just the use of microsoft word or excel almost every author or a team from the town home to the vehicle registration office and the tax office works with software specially written for their purposes. these many thousands of

special programs are written for the windows operating system. the more complex information technology becomes the deeper the state is trapped in the microsoft monopoly. no one knows this better than martin child will manage the german government's i t. for eight years. the burden deutschland and defacto upping it from microsoft i deny my course of political timing is that spin is control guns. microsoft media is that sport as a dusk to dawn it's an exam i just manage when the vitals and on the soft einsatz income vital to quintile in microsoft for human body and a lot of microsoft poke on the bush would send via the education and serve idea is that microsoft's off to a lot of them and thus you get into a little i know it's not paying its kite by the end of a can and let's not say no that's one of out of these all of the prisoners harvest

us made up any kind of fun i'd sit in the ashtray line of dimes idle admit the thought is you only because i'm the. devil are the clouds. are still in the control is. the stuff of sinai ignite ima via top and hundreds of. spirited support for ty and is the shows my night t.v. shows and their brothers in them. and you know if it's on implementing the vivid v.v. toy as my naive to believe it is i know it's of itas has been a good movie got side of it. dependency is the result of a business principle with which the major software manufacturers and in particular microsoft have created monopolies worldwide keeping the source code secret. modern software is written in programming languages the exact recipe of

a program or an entire operating system is created the source code every i.t. specialist can follow the source code however the computer and its processes count so the source code has to be converted by a translation program into machine code but this can only be read and understood by computers. this is the source code for the command show hello world as taught in every beginner's programming course the same commands translated into machine code looks like this. microsoft makes the machine code available to its customers but nobody understands it however the source code is kept secret by the company in order to protect itself from imitators this business model is called proprietary only the manufacturer is able to change improve correct and fix

security gaps in the software but this means the user is completely at the mercy of the manufacturer for better or worse. all citizens data from techs returns to finds close through the state administration's large data centers. we visit one of these top security server parks in hamburg the exact location of which we are not allowed to reveal let alone fill however the fences and locks are no protection against the open flank microsoft. so. as i stated i was there he said i was on the side out of all ideas when there are other. is i know i'm sure that doesn't eights understand they're going to win any woman no one sex no not all community come in and out if they got to be in one house is the status of i don't see that as evidence that it's kind of hidden. with one side effects that. inhibit conventional takes

on insulin as it starts a job fishelson let's see if you can prove this if adults have microsoft's idea of i. agree with minds open tennis australia it can all be all hope it's all soft is good but i see india. the best that's a great question by the south here is obviously the software can also define microsoft when they don't know what it is. a few it is on the i need to factor more of course in them to business yapping is tied to don't listen we've got a little of both machine or study games up in the face of pilots of in india listen up i've. seen a reversal of things in time microsoft percentage that was on a school killing a sequence of its own rules that microsoft intensely let's say in young only has one of content stuck on most microsoft isn't that hot and also all of the gen is going to this year of the device on microsoft or the kind that the mit microsoft put up to bed i need it for bush just out of. bed on an ocean i knew that it was going to one of the hundreds are i now i knew. this most of the state of the nation

also all of guys are not even social. these alternatives have been around for a long time they're based on the fundamentally different principle called open source . in contrast to the proprietary software of microsoft and other companies open source software uses a source code that is publicly available. that's why hundreds of thousands of programmers around the world can improve it extended and fix bugs. the collective workforce of the swarm of program and discovers and closes to cure. gaps and efficiently produces state of the art software including the world's most widely used operating systems linux and then droid. unlike microsoft windows linux is available free of charge. any organizational administration can

customize it for its own purposes without asking the corporation for permission nevertheless most government team managers believe that in public administration there is no alternative to microsoft even though this is long since become a profitable industry. does as i know it or not even get this from the many smart for once it's done the flag of a design it's one of theirs it's not of the windows it's in the end was done nish the ovation start on all the fun is up and these cards in the file is a don't miss this in and it is going on in iran and again as it does a lot of others will work later on zoloft when the at least on this is obviously it's a toy and of items on the bus by itself and the tug of war of us and us and our bond and again with the home of us plus your thoughts ideas with of i as a life border on incentive yet water is two to one vote as a town. that's been soft as all mist under us has led to calls of national

and status definition i guess and does this does by my course of one of four us run for from one device that. is going to guns industry and stand with their feet on into the sea it's just a soap as it's even then i'd never heard of it is very knowledgeable invasive isn't as good let's this in your chef time buys. today open source programs can easily compete with microsoft products as the company open exchange shows. these are software so i just consider office parkade from microsoft as its income. in this office has actually just industry flight from microsoft came here so much does. and i'm one of the best for that. well for ten min if i. introduce lessons the human. mind is on that time let's move to texas etiam been so kind of cool. as it's your own so do most of us moms human tendency to comment on

the fun also from arizona because it's a view of heaven penman and vertical mental phenomena someone via target is to forget that someone. is kept in permanent workflow but i know. this consider him a gun is my family doctors can be the reason this and saying think as i was just on lots of fun events i office software is the same someone seen as almost a cloud furnish one upping the stuff on them like the national do mice none of that up front of me that's going to buy this garbage business and it's a buzzword in the nines and i'm sort of at odds with the to call what i have ordered for the. phones till it comes in on them but not something to let the dog but it's enough to know it's the provides the system and that's my handy moment if i didn't like a damn it was the day in office and then support us as this is the as in for life i seen the alone on benefit in the good thing is not was their goals this big it wasn't an annoyance of the money going on was. it was going to miss church of

course is and there's a vaccine for the infants and would spend. that money on and for that. which you are not an institution when you are not a government. you will force is your voice belongs to you and. if you force zen people to accept seems they would not accept was a situation. if this is a difference between diplomacy and through official. i think. support to do something that you're passionate about and even are here you may not think you can do that and i didn't think there was a chance of me becoming an astronaut but i realize that's what i was passionate about and i wanted to at least try for this if you try whatever it is you're interested in in general for people if you have that passion if you have something

you think is really interesting but you think it might not be possible that doesn't matter just just give it a try and you never know where you might end up. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution of you tube clip of the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know or here i mean you know liz put video clue in the new bill is that i mean you split needle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. of those who took part in this today over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. it's

hard to imagine decades after the war a nazi doctor was still active rich in the nineteen seventies crittle had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery at ash was a german company develops a little mind a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby is anything paul you know she said is just cut short arms minix a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation then never. for the suffering that i do not only want the money i want the revenge. you know world big partisan movies lot of things and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than

ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten like colored crimes happy each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longed to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need

to remember is one one business show you can afford to miss the one and only boom bust. the use of open source software has long been standard practice for private corporations. the global giants of the digital economy such as facebook amazon google pay pal only work was open source they would never give their competitor microsoft access to their information technology by using this software yet utopian states continually surrender to the old monopoly through contracts. in these microsoft and governments come to an agreement on the conditions whereby government institutions may use the software giant's programs. the german ministry of the interior is legally bound to allow inspection of such contracts however the

ministry has blackened all the essential parts like prices conditions and security requirements the reason given trade secrets as claimed by microsoft in other words the corporation can decide what the public may learn about its dealings with taxpayers' money. with the framework contracts governments of all state institutions from local authority to parliament to obtain software directly from microsoft resellers this is legally questionable because this type of treaty overrides european law. accordingly public authorities are prohibited from buying products and services exceeding the value of one hundred thirty five thousand euros from just one supplier there has to be a public invitation to tender the german government's head of i t.

peter but appears to have no problems with this how does he justifies circumventing public procurement law. which. he said microsoft mission and done on them but. this is all as if i don't win if it in full partner in the. untied states and in his dollars least of the stock in the idea. it's a nice. gotcha nothing to. its source and fuck you fuck. you know it's expose them and often it is just and that's as good as you know you did on this photo you can miss . microsoft. microsoft it's a. it's

not that simple e.u. legislation expressly prohibits the preference of individual companies in public procurement as well as the use of brand names and invitations to tender a lawyer specializing in i.t. and public procurement much of pop's has been examining this practice for the past four years at the netherlands university of groningen so do framework agreements with microsoft violate e.u. law yeah yeah that's very clear it violates european law and when you are going to say sions you know why are you doing this the people responsible for attend or they usually know that it finally its european law but they will say well even the european commission itself is doing it.

how is it possible that top e.u. or thore are breaking their own rules my colleague maria majority from the journalist team investigate europe has been a long time correspondent in brussels and knows who to ask. ok who are we going to meet now we are going to meet. this been simmering for the empty inside it with. my cousin i was already told they are going to sign a new contract with microsoft next year so good luck to both of you. next. week microsoft and i you already negotiating a new contract the plan is to go for a negotiated procedure with microsoft for. this top layer. and for full for tender with a reseller. for microsoft doesn't the practice to negotiate this framework contract

violate the rules of procurement which demands open competition no doubt that are different procedures foreseen by the procurement rules and of course the digital to procedure is called for tender but then the negotiated procedure is a procedure that exists in their own and it's fully legal and the conditions are that there is only one provider that can provide this particular solution the technical solution so there is no other possibility and what we've seen is that we if we didn't do call for tender an open call for tender for provision we would land with microsoft anyway and it would be much more expensive because what they're doing now is negotiating a price list together with microsoft which gives us huge discounts well it sounds very reasonable but this actually means that they have a problem within their organization. because they are open locked in. they are in

a optimal situation because they are so dependent on working with microsoft that they are even thinking the. function without the microsoft software it says more about their own organization then. the topic of law because it basically means that they have internal problem they have to fix but that doesn't mean that there can't disregard for human what does the procurement law exactly say on the procurement law describes. social situations in which you ask for a brand name being locked in is not an excuse to disregard the procurement rules. there is another way in munich under the leadership of former s.p.d.

mayor christian peter the city administration has converted eighty percent of all markers of computers to the open source operating system linux since two thousand and four the project called lean looks was considered a great success and was also copied in other european cities. in twenty twelve detail writer at the time head of economics in the city government negotiated with microsoft to relocate their german headquarters to munich in twenty fourteen writer himself became the mayor since then he's been working with the alliance of social democrats and conservatives to bring the city administration back into the arms of the monopolist if you still use the works am i. feel differently. and this man and i had business immediately on this is i'd normally get on my police and fire killing of take it to our career as it causes passion for gale

pushed into. the pitted and undone done in the final debate the mayor rejects the arguments of the opposition about independence and data security with the linux system and argues in his closing words in a very personal way all this must be crude pre-term and when it does well isn't seen as truth in the answer may provide shift speculation in this ng by consequence really the mental as an institutional is clearly. trying to refrain dimon is limited if he. can do it if he merely soup it wasn't here for him dunk. is to look at some microsoft taking less to him for the for larger home distortion concerns it's not mentioned in these i had four hundred give distances i think it was definitively youngest was no it was over the last just as phil's ready it was lockers to go to install it to

introduce your kids fitted on windows to get if you start. according to a survey the vast majority of city employees are quite satisfied with lee marks however the experts found that the i t. was poorly minute. partly because the heads of departments were allowed to make their own decisions about how to use the programs but there was no fundamental technical problem as the previous head of munich's i t department told the industry news service. we can't interview the employees of the administration because they are not allowed to talk to us however an expert from the municipal department is prepared to talk to us anonymously so is there some truth in the claim that the open source system in the munich administration didn't work properly isn't it isn't touched them enough as it ought to still have a heart and that about a test that good of it and cannot be for the long as. a lot of these are phones and

as it's been discontinued to harness that same thousand formula. very often the software in the past presidents made in. noise for a long distinguished even microsoft office does what it believes where nobody comes in for long hours and converts or years of art that we don't hender. fleeing or does return to an explosion that aren't even more funny a minute buzz on as kind take a show called just put it tick on for hundreds musser. three schticks all need to show abundant part of the show backslidden. and or to clean this project by a few months ago when it gets a dozen for its own cups that was accordance you were going to seize were. getting the sleeve notes playing even for. microsoft also the next of a mobile go bust it would it does but you know so if you want to have them buy

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belongs to you and. your choice people do seems they wouldn't that was a situation. if this is a difference with. the official policy. protests across the us president trump forces. jeff sessions who initially rallied against his nomination and i was standing against his removal a recent thing i like about most of the people that donald trump appointed are you protesting now. because i'm. also ahead on the program white republican women face betraying feminist values in the us their midterm votes in favor of the g.o.p. candidate in two.