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Microsoft tries evading new GPL grasp

Microsoft tries evading new GPL graspLoverock Needs To Read Groklaw...if only to understand what he's FUDding about.No one is required to distribute GPL software and/or code. But once one does so, one becomes subject to its terms. To do otherwise is copyright infringement, pure and simple. A plausable argument can...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Loverock, GPLv3, Microsoft Corp., SuSE, GPL, GPLv3 Software, ProVantage, GPL Software, Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-07-06

Top 5 myths of GPLv3 dispelled (part 1)

Now that the "Final Draft" of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) is out and we're 30 days away from the official published version, I thought it would be a good time to take a look at some of the least well understood provisions in the license. These...

Tags: Programming, Patents, Linux, Licenses, General, Community, Commercial

Blog posts 2007-06-04

Torvalds weighs in on Linux trademark row

Torvalds weighs in on Linux trademark rowMakes senseIt's important to protect the Linux trademark. Especially at a time when powerful interests are looking for any and all ways to attack Linux. This is not only reasonable, it is necesary.That's funny"He claimed that some right-wing politicians agree with Bill Gates' view...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Intellectual property, Tools & Techniques, UNIX, GPL Software, IP Law, Free Software, Torvalds, Linux, software, software community

Discussion threads 2005-08-22

Attorney: More disclosure will end GPL case

Attorney: More disclosure will end GPL caselets see how much GPL code m$ includesin its products. I bet its a lot - they steal from 'partners', why would they let freebies ride ?bet that company wish it never touched gplit infects all your code, and requires you to give it...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPL Software, way thing, GPL, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-04-23

Additional Resources

The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?

Lawson CEO Harry Debes started -- or rather continued -- a brouhaha that's getting some pixels in the blogosphere, and his position is worth commenting on for both its courage foolhardy and its excess hyperbolically so. According to Harry, the SaaS market will collapse in two years time, due to...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Customer Choice, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Google Apps dashboard: Serious about the enterprise?

Google is developing a system status reporting dashboard for its Apps Premier product line. This decision provides further evidence Google is serious about becoming an enterprise software vendor. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Dashboard, PROJECT FAILURES ANALYSIS Google, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-08-28

SaaS market will 'collapse' in two years

Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes says SaaS is the third attempt at "on demand" in his lifetime and predicts it will take the same path as the first two--to oblivion. Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes, doesn't believe in software-as-a-service SaaS. ...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Software as a service, SaaS, software, Lawson, Asia, Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia

News items 2008-08-28

Dell's second quarter: Another milepost in the turnaround tale

Dell reports its fiscal second quarter results on Thursday after market close and analysts are turning optimistic about the company's turnaround prospect amid better consumer notebook designs, emerging market revenue and solid server sales growth. Dell is expected to report fiscal second quarter earnings of 36 cents...

Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., Miscioscia, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-28

GoBootstrap: simplifying SME accounting

I'm keen to see startups in the accounting for small business space. Part of that is because I spent more years than I care to remember in finance roles, part is in the belief that accounting systems that reflect a 600 year old methodology are well...

Tags: Accounting, Small And Medium Enterprise, Advisor, GoBootstrap, GoBootstrap.com, Tax Estimate, General Usability, Taxes, Free Trade, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-28

News to know: IE 8; iPhone password locks; SOA; Palm Treo Pro reviews

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download Ed Bott: Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover Gallery: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Password, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, SOA, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-28

MSN Norway serving Flash exploits through malvertising

Morten Krakvik from the Norwegian Honeynet Project is reporting that MSN Norway is among the latest victims of malvertising, a practice where a bogus advertising provider tricks leading portals into accepting advertisements from its network, which often end up redirecting to live exploit URLs. The recent wave of malvertising that...

Tags: MSN, Advertisement, Portals, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover

Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeoverStandardsWhat I want to know, does the "standards" mode remove previous IE hacks? For example, using the underscore in CSS statements would be ignored by every browser except IE. If IE8 now supports standards but STILL reads the underscore hack, this could be a...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8, IE8, Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Adrian

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

It must be a rough day in Cupertino

They just keep coming, one negative headline after another after another. At least that's how it must feel today over at Apple. In the last 24 hours or so, there have been at least four separate events that have put the company in a negative light. The widespread problems with...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., TechMeme, Apple Mac OS X, Internet, 3G, Service Management, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-27

NPR feature on OLPC - what went wrong?

NPR feature on OLPC - what went wrong?Very simply put, It became a religious war....Software is simply NOT a religion.So the software religious community needs to learn to sleep with itself.In retrospect, the OLPC has changed the world. Sure, it has spawned anindustry that is more to serve rich consumers...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, NPR

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

"Why do you hate Vista so much?"

"Why do you hate Vista so much?"Reasons that Vista bothers me...1) I have now spent over 4 hours trying to get SP1 installed on a new box.... the BSOD's are blurry (kind of funny huh?) The same box, XP installed with less heart ache and fewer issues... while I am...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, SP1, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Suddenly, Android is hot again

After months of silence, the double-whammy of new software and hardware has gotten everyone talking about Android again. Earlier this month Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch was wondering if anybody cared about Android any more. Now TC is practically gushing over the mobile platform. What happened? Two things:...

Tags: Phone, SDK, Shout-out, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Defendant in key RIAA decision destroyed evidence

Defendant in key RIAA decision destroyed evidenceSo they are sueing someone with no money. LOLKnow what my insurance company told me when i was hit by a driver with no insurance, no job and was living with relatives.... "to bad for you" I was lucky, my mother insisted...

Tags: E-mail, Insurance, fool, RIAA

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Virtualization software revives dumb terminals, cuts IT costs

Virtualization software revives dumb terminals, cuts IT costsMicrosoft puts out a free tool that does essentially the same thingSteadystate... google it. We currently use it on kiosk computers, but you could use it for what they are pushing it for. You could also deploy group policies that prevent...

Tags: cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, dumb terminal, Virtualization Software, virtualization, IT cost, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Virtualization software revives dumb terminals, cuts IT costs

With computers growing smarter by the day, why would anyone want to step back more than a decade and fill office cubicles with dumb terminals? The answer is simple - to keep cubicle computers in service longer, uncluttered and free of malware, viruses and hacking programs. At...

Tags: Software, Dumb Terminal, Virtualization, Network, Information Technology, IT Cost, Virus, Computer, Virtualization Software, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Tools & Techniques, Security, Viruses And Worms, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flaw

Intel has shipped a BIOS update with a fix for a privilege escalation vulnerability that was used by rootkit researcher Joanna Rutkowska to bluepill the Xen hypervisor. The vulnerability was discussed by Rutkowska at the Black Hat briefings earlier this month but details on the exploit were...

Tags: Black Hat, Hypervisor, Motherboard, BIOS Update, Intel Corp., Flaw, System Management Mode, Level Privilege, BIOS, Virtualization, Hardware, Components, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-27