the dangerous computer virus has spread around the globe want to cry is the name of the cyber criminals have given the virus was which they blackmail the 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 to the ministry of the interior in russia and the japanese car manufacturer 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 in 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 or for 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 mounting child will. managed the german

government's eye teeth for eight years. to burton and deutschland and defacto upping it from microsoft but in my course of political timing is that spin is could be any good. for microsoft and showing its vote as a dust adults and if someone does manage with vitals and on the soft einsatz income vote he took women to and in microsoft for human body and microsoft put on the bush would send via the education and idea is that with microsoft's software a lot of those who get into a little i know it's not paying its kind of identification and that's not saying oh that's once a has a lot of these already present a harvest us made up any kind of fun i'd sit in the ashtray none of dimes idle admit the thought is you won't because i'm not a t. f a lot home for nineteen declaw it. was on the market in the control is. the stuff in the gov sinai ignited

ima via top and money is often commerce. it's been good it's of all time and you see here is my ninety physicians and their book of them. and you know if insulin implement the v.v. toy as mine i believe i can design which items has been a good move in the gulf side of this. 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 the 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 sas 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 finance flows through the state administrations 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 it was one of the out of all ideas when there are other. as i know i'm sure there's an eight hundred staff are going to listen any woman no one sex no not at all community come in and out of state of the one house is the status of i don't see that as evidence that it's an indian. one sided excellent. condition based on insulin in this diet said the jockey shows and let's see if he could prove this if adults had microsoft city up and provide. a good yarn but mine's adds up in tennis australia it can also be all open source of escape but i see india is a puppet theatre soft. given is that's

a great question by the south here is obviously the software can also about the effect on microsoft when they do know it is. this the i need to factor more of course and the good business yapping is trying to get its young muslim before little both machines study again without being used on fighter pilots of in india. bustle of things inside microsoft percentage that was on a school killing the stupidest of its own rules that microsoft did sense and that's the same young as well the content stuck on most microsoft isn't that hot and also all of the gen is going to be divided on microsoft for the kind of limited microsoft product event i needed for bush just a bit on a notion i needed to look at one of the hundreds are i now i know who knows who is making this most of us think of the nation are also all of guys and not even so sure. 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 programmers discovers and closes secure. gaps and efficiently produce a state of the out software including the world's most widely used operating systems linux and then droid. unlike microsoft windows linux is available free of charge. any organization or 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 this guy know it or not even if the straw man is not as

much it's once again the flag of a design it's one of the as it's not of the on windows it's in the end was done nish the old patient started it was all safe and is up in these codes in the file is a don't miss this in and it is going to be the noise of on and again as it does not of others will work later on zoloft when the at least on this is alice it's a toy and the light and sound of us gets out there the toggle of us and us and our band and again with the home of us your thoughts ideas with of i as a life order on incentive your order is two to one vote as a ton and a heart as data that's been soft as all missed under us cause of national and status definition i guess and does is does by my course of one of four us run for from one device that. is going to guns in the us the and on with their feeder the gun into the seats and just as its even then i'd never heard it is very knowledgeable in by the business as but that's this in your shaft 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. to mean if i give up. the human. mind because of that time let's move to texas etiam been. so do most of us muslims human tendency to comment on the phone also from us on the . pentagon in a vertical mental phenomena someone via target is that someone is kept in permanent work film and i'm going. to consider him a gun is my family doctors can be so busy ness and saying cling to us i was just on

lots of fun evidence i office software system some unseen i was technology furnished one upping the stuff on them like an additional two mice none of that up front of me that's good but it's got his business and it's a budget on the phone and i can sort of argentina call what i have ordered for the call. comes in. with what's in the midst of a god's existence and that's my moment demons i get on with just the d.m.v. office and then support the justice system and is the as in for i seen the allowance on been offered in the good thing as their goals this big deal it wasn't an annoyance of the money on which i was. just going to church of course and there's a vaccine for one of those would spend. that money on and for the. what

politicians do something if. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to be like the blue cross was like a tree in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the hottest. place sit. there's no embolden around pray here in rwanda you know why is this terrorist. bad memories of. twenty four years ago this country song a real look at the end of the world. after the genocide there a moment women in rwanda that man. it

fell to women to fix what the men had broken. and. it's been seventy years since the united nations said don't did they gain of us so declaration on human rights but in many places in for mainz a declaration and not a reality how to bridge the divide between practice and preaching. you know world of big partisan movies a lot 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. and shouting past each other it's tied for critical thinking it's time. to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for

watching closely watching the hawks. 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 paypal only work with open source they would never give their competitor microsoft access to their information technology by using this stuff with good european 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 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 allow 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 p t but appears

to have no problems with this how does he justifies circumventing public procurement law. which microsoft. microsoft mission and done on them but. this is all as if i don't see fit in full partner in the. untied states in his dollars least of the stock and the. reason it's a nice. gotcha nothing to. its source and. you know it's expose them and often it is a stand out so good as you know you did on this photo in this. 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 in invitations to tender a lawyer specializing in i.t. and public procurement matures pops 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 this that it finally its european law but they will say well even the european commission itself is doing it.

how is it possible that you 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 are ready negotiating a new contract the plan is to go for a negotiated procedure with microsoft for. this top layer. and for full for tender. 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 picture metros 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 both 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 that they have to fix but that doesn't mean that there can't disregard for human law what does the procurement law exactly say of the procurement law describes. social situations in which you can ask for a brand name being locked in is not an excuse to disregard the procurement rules. there is another way. under the leadership of former s.p.d.

mayor. the city administration has converted eighty percent of all microsoft 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 the students he works and eyes. even into it. and this man and i discuss it immediately on this is i'd normally get on my monocle list and off i was killing this failure of take it to our career here as it causes pleasure 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 our news in his closing words in the very personal way all this must be here could present come and when it does well isn't seen as truth in the answer may provide shifts beginning inducing by consequence really them a new president will is clearly. trying to deliver it non-blocking instrument. is limited if he. can do it if he merely soup it wasn't here for him dunk. is to look at some microsoft thinking lies to infinity for large home distortion concerns it's not mentioned in these i had four hundred give distances to get to stupidity even if it was a youngest was know it was who it was last just as bills were eighty it was lockers

to go to. its fitted on window to begin to. 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 hard on with about it and cannot be from the us is. as good on children of

a lot of phones and as it's been discontinued to harness that same thousand from a lot of very often the software in the past presidents made in. noise for a long distinguished even for microsoft office does what they believe they have no guns and for longer some converts or years of art that we don't hender be dominant in fleeing orders for an explosion that aren't even more funny minutes but aren't as kind take a show called just put it tick on for hundreds musser. text need to show abundant. and or. begin doesn't fit saying ups that was accordance you were going to seize. getting to sleep no spanking for. microsoft something that makes a mobile go bust. does it do you know if. they should have bought a company's microsoft which it. would. be.

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from be relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know or here i mean your list put me in the neighborly is that i do split needle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. of those who took part in it invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. and. it's been seventy years since the united nations said don't to the universal declaration on human rights but in many places in for mainz a declaration and not a reality how to bridge the divide between practice and preaching.

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a german company develops in the denied 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 but. you know she said is just cut short arms minix a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering that not only want the money. i want the revenge. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten by color crimes happen each day . eighty five percent of global wealth you long to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a 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't afford to miss the one and only. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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