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- Calling out lawyers on their own FUD
- Last week I did a little legal snark, suggesting that the BusyBox settlements do not, as attorney Edward Walsh wrote, add to the legal risks run by enterprises using open source. Now the Software Freedom Law Center has weighed in on this, and they agree with me....
- Tags: Edward Walsh, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
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- What's on Obama's iPod?
- What's on Obama's iPod?Stupidity at its bestIf you don�t think every song on his ipod, if he really even owns one, isn�t a political calculation then you are a fool. At this stage of the game, I am sure their staffers are a picking every aspect of...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Obama, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- A peek into Silicon Valley and beyond . . .
- I enjoy being a journalist and reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. Most of my reporting is done the traditional way, with a notepad and pencil. Increasingly journalists have to do more, carry a camera, do podcasts, run video. Software engineers have to...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, Journalist, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Fifteen most buzzed-about athletes
- Athlete Sport Country 1.Michael Phelps Swimming United States 2.Yao Ming Basketball China 3.Kobe Bryant Basketball United States 4.LeBron James Basketball United States 5.Dara Torres Swimming United States 6.Shawn Johnson Gymnastics United States 7.Laure Manaudou Swimming France...
- Tags: Athlete, NB
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Geoengineering may be tech's answer to global warming
- Geoengineering may be tech's answer to global warming....I can only seeing bad things happen with this... the answer is conservation, green energy solutions and minor changing of habits. It's also an aggressive pollution control and penalty system for those that fail to comply. Recycling and reforestation.All these things and a...
- Tags: global warming, Geoengineering
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Virtual Iron 4.4
- Tim Walsh, Director of Marketing for Virtual Iron, brought me up to speed on his company's newest release of its cleverly named product, Virtual Iron. Since we hadn't spoken in quite some time, we spent the first part of our conversation, telling travel stories, bad jokes and generally having a...
- Tags: data center, virtual iron, virtual iron 4.4, data centers, desktop virtualization, storage, hardware, data management, dan kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- The shine is off another apple
- Techies to Apple: You treat us like indentured servants.In a lawsuit filed Monday that the plaintiff hopes to turn into class-action that could include all staff at retail stores, an Apple employee alleges that the company denied technical staffers overtime pay and other compensations required by state law. The network...
- Tags: job, overtime, apple inc., recruitment & selection, human resources, workforce management, deb perelman
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeUnderpaying the budget analystLess than $40,000? Is this a trainee?Gotcha momentWith the profusion of detail unconnected to any conclusion, strange to compain about missing information. Still, a sentence like this:In addition, the requirements shown for the project manager position contain...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, COBOL/VSE, IBM Corp., IBM mainframe, data-processing
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- New tab switching, search results features debut in Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1
- Firefox 3.1 alpha 1 landed roughly as scheduled this week with little fanfare, and is now available for developer testing. There are a number of new features in the dot one release, most notably a new tab switching feature and more control over what search results are displayed in the...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Search Result, Tab, Control-Tab, Control-Tab Feature, Firefox Team, Web Browsers, Internet, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison
- [ UPDATE: Davidson was found dead, involved in an apparent murder-suicide that involved his wife and 3-year-old daughter. ] Edward "Eddie" Davidson, a notorious e-mail spammer who was sentenced to jail time in April, has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. Davidson...
- Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Restitution, Davidson, Federal Prison Camp, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Reiser leads police to wife's body, gets 15 years
- Hans Reiser was sentenced to 15 years to life in jail for strangling his wife to death in 2006. As part of a deal reached with the Alameda County DA, Reiser received a reduced prison sentence and conviction on a lesser charge -- second degree murder --...
- Tags: Project, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- NY Times and USA Today weigh in on iPhone 3G
- Last night I reported that Walt Mossberg has posted his review of the iPhone 3G. Following in his footsteps are Apple's other preferred journos David Pogue from the New York Times ("For iPhone, the ‘New' Is Relative") and Edward C. Baig from USA Today ("Apple's new iPhone 3G: Still not...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Apple Inc., Apple PR, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, David Pogue, jason D. O'Grady, New York Times Co., Personal Technology, USA Today, Wireless
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- The next generation will deal with global warming, we promise
- The next generation will deal with global warming, we promiseEmission cuts promised unfeasible without clean coalWithout clean coal, the emission cuts promised by the G8 puny though they are are unfeasible: "The vast majority of new power stations in China and India will be coal-fired; not "may be coal-fired"; will...
- Tags: global warming, emission cut
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- MSM Apple iPhone reviews are up and may just have saved me some cash
- I was 90% sure I was going to buy an iPhone 3G on Friday, but a couple of things changed my mind tonight and I decided I will not be buying the device on Friday. One of my main motivations for buying the iPhone was to be able to write...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., MSM Apple iPhone Review, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - Virtual Iron Chimes In
- As I mentioned in the post, Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing, a number of companies contacted me in the hopes of presenting their view of Microsoft's Hyper-V announcement. This is the first of several posts on what they had to say. My friends at Virtual Iron; Tony...
- Tags: Marketing, Hypervisor, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Virtual Iron, Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- A life destroyed: State employee acquitted of child porn charges
- Michael Fiola's life was destroyed by spammers who turned his computer into a child porn kiosk. The investigator for the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents investigator fired for having kiddie porn on his PC. But, the Boston Globe reports, a computer forensic analysis revealed the machine was running out-of-date virus...
- Tags: Child Pornography, Computer, Michael Fiola, Mike Fiola, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Calling out lawyers on their own FUD
- Calling out lawyers on their own FUDReally?"Walsh�s claim that before these suits open source offered only a �philosophical dispute� is false. Copyright law has always been at the heart of open source."Really?Copyright law and the GPL are based on the concept of a "derivative work." What EXACTLY is a...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, derivative-work
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- Do the Busybox cases change anything?
- Do the Busybox cases change anything?About rightIf you're looking at free software as a starting point for closed source development, then stay away from GPLed code, but if your interest is in using the software or in selling support contracts, then there's no problem.I've long thought that controversies over license...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, BusyBox, software
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Do the Busybox cases change anything?
- The GPL violation cases known collectively as the BusyBox cases never went to court, but they do seem to have settled the question of whether the license is enforceable. It is. So why is Edward Walsh, an attorney at Wolf Greenfield in Boston, trying to...
- Tags: Software, GPL, Open-source Software, Compliance, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- The value in name patients
- The value in name patientsYour assuming of course ....... that the surgery is successfull. What if he dies on the table or within 60 days after? Will people still want to use Duke?Probably won't make any difference unless...Dr. Friedman severely blunders. According to this article:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060200926.html?hpid=moreheadlinesthis is very...
- Tags: Friedman, patient, Kennedy, surgery
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
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