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GPLv3 Myth #3: GPL forbids DRM

In our continuing series on the latest version of the world's most popular and least understood free/open source license, today we look at a controversial subject: Digital Rights Management DRM. My colleague David Berlind has another name for DRM: Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection CRAP.Disclaimer: This information was culled from...

Tags: Programming, Licenses, Linux, GPLv3 Myths, General, Community, Commercial

Blog posts 2007-07-30

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News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources

Blog posts 2008-07-23

VMware and common performance myths

Rich McDougall and Scott Drummand, performance gurus over at VMware, presented a fantastic review of some of the performance testing VMware has been doing at the VMware analyst day. I posted something about the findings of that research in the post, Is VMware busting the virtualization tax myth. I've just...

Tags: Virtualization, Performance, VMware Inc., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-22

One prediction about climate change challenges another

One prediction about climate change challenges anotherWhen myths collideThere never was a hole. It was a thinning of the ozone layer.Any first year chem student could tell you it's impossible for ozone to disappear in the presence of sunlight, since ozone is created by the bombardment of short UV with...

Tags: global warming, ozone, oxygen

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

Physics - getting a raw deal in schools?

Physics - getting a raw deal in schools?physics is not a fundamental application of mathsPhysics is the basis for understanding any physical phenomenon. I do not see any sense in studying biology w/o a strong physics curriculum, as w/o physics you will have a hard time understanding what...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, raw deal

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Mystery explained: Why you have to reboot Windows so often

Mystery explained: Why you have to reboot Windows so oftenYou failed to explain...WHY rebooting in necessary.It's because of the Windows architecture. It is so monolithic that it can't recover from simple application errors. When one thing goes wrong, it is a snow ball effect. Other OS's do not suffer nearly...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Other OS, reBoot Windows, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-28

Gates' next act is to step into vaccine controversy

Gates' next act is to step into vaccine controversyGates Next ACTWhat's surprising about this?Carl Icahn thinks he knows how to run Yahoo!.The medical community has a pretty set way of choosing to adopt generalized treatments, and a lot of consideration goes to cost vs benefit. Bill will have to...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, vaccine

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

News to know: Nokia Symbian; XP phase-out; Apple badware

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: No reprieve: XP phase-out begins June 30 Dancho Danchev: Trojan exploiting unpatched Mac OS X vulnerability in the wild Spam attack shut downs Marshall Islands email service 200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Symbian Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), E-mail, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Advertising & Promotion, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Hardware, Operating Systems, Management, Marketing, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-06-25

The top Sun Ray myths

The top Sun Ray mythsInteresting, but ignores the fact that Sun Ray is proprietary protocolAn interesting summary and provides a good foundation for any discussion relating to thin client solutions or Server Based Computing as a whole.However, it was not pointed out that Sun Ray utilizes a proprietary protocol and...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Servers, Network technology, Sun Ray, SunRay, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

The top Sun Ray myths

When you look closely at the top eight reasons people cite for not using Sun's Sun Ray based central processing architecture in business you get a surprise: they're all wrong. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Notebooks, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-25

diversITy: the lack of women in the IT industry

This series of entries, called diversITy, will cover a number of topics all concerning the diversity of people within the IT industry. Whether we discuss women in industry, sexual orientation in the workplace, religion or ethnic background; these are all topics which will have an effect on students, if not...

Tags: Women, Information Technology, Industry, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-21

Analytics in rich Internet applications and measuring success

Via InsideRIA I found a blog post by Robert Hoekman Jr talking about some of the common myths of analytics today. It's a pretty good look at what people really want to accomplish when it comes to "success" on the web. If you're a news site then page views is...

Tags: Advertisement, Analytics, Rich Internet Application, Site, Financial Planning, Finance, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-06-18

An Irregular experience with Oracle

I was in Lisbon, Portugal yesterday, attending Oracle EMEA's marketing kick off. This was unusual on three counts: I tend to stick it to Oracle on any and every occasion It's rare for someone with my background to be invited to these affairs ...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Web 2.0, Channel Management, Public Relations, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Forrester and Aerohive Present the Application and Network Impacts of 802.11n Standard

Wireless networking is a given for businesses of all sizes and now there is a new 802.11 wireless standard to consider. The coverage and bandwidth improvements of 802.11n will further accelerate the adoption of mobile applications and provide the opportunity for wireless to become the primary access method in tomorrow's...

Tags: Network, IEEE 802.11n, Aerohive Networks Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Wi-Fi, Wireless

Webcasts 2008-06-18

9 myths, truths, and partial truths about developer efficiency

Tons of products on the market claim to improve developer efficiency, from different languages to IDEs, automated build tools to automated build environments. Justin James set out to bust some myths, bring to light a few truths, and show some partial truths regarding developer efficiency.This download is also available as...

Tags: Truth, Justin James, Development Tools, Productivity, Blogging, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Internet

Download resources 2008-06-03

I swear, this is not another Unixfication post

I swear, this is not another Unixfication postClarifyLinus would have a difficult time moving the kernel to GPLv3. Many kernel devs have already 'nixed' the idea and Linus, unlike the FSF does not hold the copyrights on all kernel contributions.Since it's been ruled that UNIX is owned by Novell and...

Tags: Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Novell Inc., Unixfication, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linus

Discussion threads 2008-05-18

I swear, this is not another Unixfication post

Photo: Jeff Bonwick and Linus Torvalds I was resolved not to write another Unixfication story until I had more concrete news of Sun and Linus actually working together, and filed it away under "Maybe". Like many of the speculative peices I write, it...

Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-05-18

Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refuse

Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refusewell can we trust Novell to anything now sincethey made deal with MS ......Don't think so. Well even if thay you be very nice to have a unix-fication under a mother distro .....im worry that MS goes up with dirty...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Virtualization, OPEN SOURCE, toughie, Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., NOVELL HAS

Discussion threads 2008-05-12

Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refuse

Last week, I blogged about the possible future of a unified UNIX GPLv3 operating system "mother distro" comprising the merged source code of the Solaris and Linux kernels (and presumably, the source code of other vendors as well) and related GNU stack with associated tools and applications. ...

Tags: Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., SCO Group Inc., GPLv3, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-05-12

The Obama Party and the Googlization of politics

The Obama Party and the Googlization of politicsTheres that loophole again........that doesn't exist. I dislike the idea of the ASP loophole. Its not a loophole. Its a change in principle thats causing the problem if you ask me. The idea of FOSS was software you could do whatever you want...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, Stallman, software, F/OSS, Obama Party

Discussion threads 2008-05-09