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20/08/2008

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Liebert, Nicola

2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

die tageszeitung - Germany | 05/05/2008

The solution is called Open Source

Nikola Liebert comments on the withdrawal of Microsoft's offer for the online service Yahoo. "Competition is not always a good thing. Think of ... the subway, also in New York, built by two private firms. Lines crossed without transfer possibilities because the firms did not want to lose customers to the competition. ... What good does that kind of competition do us? Infrastructural needs should be consistently organised. They should never be left to a private monopoly, like the postal services in its time ... and Microsoft today. And with such a truly global project like the Internet, a national, state solution would also be unreasonable. Yet an alternative has long existed. It is called Open Source: software that is developed by a global community, and which anyone may freely use, copy and process. If you want to escape the tentacles of Microsoft and Google, turn to Linux, Open Office and Firefox."

die tageszeitung - Germany | 15/05/2007

Daimler says goodbye to Chrysler

Nicola Liebert explains that the 'marriage' between the two carmakers Daimler and Chrysler was doomed to failure from the very beginning. She argues that the German luxury brand and the American 'cheap products' never fit together and that the expensive fusion was all about prestige. "Oh, how wonderful they thought themselves in Stuttgart nine years ago: for once a German company was overtaking a US company - rather than the other way round. Out of Swabia and into the big wide world. The US management was quickly disposed of and the Germans took over. That's the way globalisation should be!... But now among other things the reactions of the German and even the American trade unions are proof of how foolish this transatlantic marriage really was: they unanimously celebrated the sale of Chrysler to a private equity group - or in other words the kind of locust that usually fills a work force with panic and fear. Apparently they think anything's better than clinging to an international company whose sole purpose seems to have been to prove to itself that it was somebody in this world."

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