LJ Index

  1. Estimated $millions saved annually by Largo, Florida by running Linux applications on Linux servers and thin clients: 1
  2. Number of distinct domains that lead to the Tina's Webcam site: 4,525
  3. $millions Bertlesmann loaned napster, through April 2002: 85
  4. $millions more Bertlesman would be willing to pay Napster, as of April 2002: 15-30
  5. $billions for which Napster was orginally sued by the RIAA on behalf of Bertelsmann and other companies:20
  6. Debian Linux CDs burned by the government of Extremadura, a rural area called the poorest in Spain, for distribution to schools and through newspaper inserts: 80,000
  7. Number of schools in Extremadura: 670
  8. Number of technology centers in Extremadura: 32
  9. Expected yearly savings to the Extremadura community in $millions: 7
  10. Number of gov't offices and schools expected in the Extremadura extranet by the end of 2002: 1,478
  11. Number of Extramadura's teachers expected to be trained on the use of Linux in the classroom: 15,000
  12. $millions spent by MCA Records to make and market the album "Ultimate High" by Carly Hennesey: 2.2
  13. Copies of "Ultimate High" sold as a result of MCA Records' efforts: 378
  14. Percentage of records that become profitable, according to record industry sources: 5
  15. Average number of records that must be sold for a major label release to break even: 500,000
  16. Size in inches at its widest side of the Transmeta Crusoe-based OQO "modular computer": 4.9
  17. Weight in ounces of the OQO: 9
  18. Size in GB of the OQO's hard drive: 10
  19. Expected battery life in hours of the OQO: 8
  20. Trillions of calulations per second of the Linux-powered supercomputer HP sold to the U.S. Dept. of Energy in April 2002: 8.3
  21. Number of Intel Itanium 64-bit processors in the Energy Dept.'s new Linux supercomputer: 1,400
  22. $millions the Energy Dept. will pay for its new supercomputer: 24.5

Sources: 1, ZDNet; 2, Ben Edelman, Harvard Law case study; 3, New York Times; 4-5, ABC News, MP3 Newswire; 6-11, Wired News; 12-15, Wall Street Journal; 16-19, LinuxDevices.com; 20-22, CNET.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/renewals/

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http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/napster000508.html

http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/napster.html

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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5883627984.html

http://blog.mattgoyer.com/stories/2002/02/21/popSingerFailsToStrikeAChordDespiteTheMillionsSpentByMCA.html