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Open Source's debt to corporations

Jesus Villasante, the head of software technologies at the EC's Information Society and Media Directorate General try saying that after a few beers, accused American IT companies of using open source programmers to their own nefarious ends. Companies are using the potential of communities as subcontractors--the open-source community today (is...

Tags: Jesus Villasante, open source

Blog posts 2005-05-31

Open Source's debt to corporations

Jesus Villasante, the head of software technologies at the EC's Information Society and Media Directorate General try saying that after a few beers, accused American IT companies of using open source programmers to their own nefarious ends. Companies are using the potential of communities as subcontractors--the open-source community today (is...

Tags: Jesus Villasante, open source

Blog posts 2005-05-31

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Spore hit by class-action lawsuit over DRM

Spore hit by class-action lawsuit over DRMI don't know... seems a lot of people are enraged...... over the introduction of such a DRM system to their computers. I've read numerous incidents where people have to constantly restart their game, uninstall the games to get another program running, etc...Also it...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Games, Rootkits, SecuROM, game, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

How big the Google open source credibility gap

How big the Google open source credibility gapSame script, different actorsEveryone hates "the king of the hill." Once upon a time, Microsoft was David and the Goliath was IBM... and everyone was filled with schadenfreude as IBM lost control of the PC market hardware and wound up seriously restructuring its...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google open source credibility gap, IBM Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

Lord's Prayer theenk (exe)

Memorize the Lord's Prayer. Simply type the first letter of the word. Easy to use and fun to play. Quickly learn the prayer. The prayers you miss will be given again at the end. You also get Psalm23 and quotes by Jesus to memorize. This version is the first release...

Tags: Letter, Fun, MouseBed, Lord

Software downloads 2008-09-18

Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers

In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL -- this is not the NetDevilz team that hijacked the DNS records of the ICANN and Photobucket in June --...

Tags: Web, Web Site, Hacker, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Hacking, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-25

An apology to the Vietnam vets out there

An apology to the Vietnam vets out thereWhat?*roflhao trying not to wet himself* oh jesus!... i mean... oh my goodness (no offense intended to all those right side of the fence, sandle wearing, western, monotheists out there!).i mean for the love of mary!! political correctness is far far far far...

Tags: Vietnam VET, Vietnam War

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again

Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over againCerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again[i]Rather than a volume cap, I suggest the introduction of transmission rate caps, which would allow users to purchase access to the Internet at a given minimum data rate and be free...

Tags: Pricing, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING, Net Neutrality, Vint Cerf, simple pricing, pricing strategy, Internet, Cerf, network

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

Microsoft External Research release five new tools to students

  I was told about these last week and was held off until now; annoyingly after Channel 8 decided to post their own video, probably to get all the credit. Sometimes I think, why do I bother do this job? (Good income, great hours, travel and trips...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tool, Collaboration Environment, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Corporate Communications, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-30

Android losing it's mojo fast

Android losing it's mojo fastForcing GTalk != do no evilYou can't get more lame than that...A note on iPhone apps.Apple would do well to remove the restriction where any non Apple application must exit not stay resident when another function is used like answering an incoming call. This will...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Blogging, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-19

Numbers show Obama plan won't work

Numbers show Obama plan won't workMany families of four ....... have a single wage earner making only minimum wage. You and Obama are the ones that are fudging. besides any cost placed on the business is passed on through the goods and services offered making us even less...

Tags: Financial Planning, Obama, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Apple iPhone 3G launch roundup

"I have an iPhone... and you don't!" I decided (ok, my financial advisor, aka spouse, decided for me) to skip the iPhone 3G frenzy this morning and just sit back and watch the fun. For...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-07-11

VMWare: Time to Pay the Open Source Piper

It would not be an exaggeration to say that yesterday was a very bad day for VMWare. My friend and fellow tech blogger colleague at ComputerWorld, Steven J Vaughn-Nichols, thinks the company will be down for the count when they take their next hit, that essentially, the...

Tags: Software, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Hardware, Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Dustan Soul Adventures CD/DVD Creator (exe)

Create your Custom Business Card or full size CDs that share the Gospel of Jesus. Dustan Soul Adventures is a multimedia, interactive; fully Customizable Adventure program that uses Microsoft Accessibility options such as text to speech, and a built in artificial intelligence, to compares what you believe today with what...

Tags: CD, Bible, DVD, TruthCounts, Dustan Soul Adventures

Software downloads 2008-06-27

MSDN Webcast: Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation Integration in Depth With Jesus Rodriguez (Level 400)

The combination of Windows Communication Foundation WCF and Windows Workflow Foundation WF provides the building block for the next generation of Microsoft .NET applications. With the release of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, developers now have multiple alternatives to build applications that combine WCF and WF. This webcast illustrate some of...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft Windows, Windows Communication Foundation, Integration

Webcasts 2008-06-25

Why I still prefer Internet Explorer

Why I still prefer Internet ExplorerWell everybody is entitled to their opinionHowever, I was expecting an argument as to why you as a user preferred IE. Instead I got why you as a programmer like IE. Well that's kind of like going to a restaurant and having the waiter tell...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, CSS, JavaScript

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Apple announces iPhone 3G; firmware 2.0

Apple announces iPhone 3G; firmware 2.03G iPhoneIf I upgrade from my current iPhone to the new 3G iPhone, what happens to my current EDGE iPhone? Can I still use it as a video iPod if there is no SIM card in it? And access email and the...

Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, OOO, iPhone 3G, 3G, Apple announces iPhone 3G, Apple announces iPhone, Apple iPhone, Apple Announces, Apple Inc., firmware, phone

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

Dumbing down our math tests?

Dumbing down our math tests?Two factors at work.One, the "we mustn't make anyone feel bad" syndrome.And, two, the old adage: Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. You and I both know there's more than a little truth in that saying.Combine the two, mix in a little union, and...

Tags: Dumbing Down, math test, education

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Follow Jesus Footsteps (exe)

Pictorial presentation of the 100 events in the last 1000 days of Jesus. Each event in Jesus' life maps to Web site (www.jesus-footsteps.com), providing the event info on the Holy Land site, biblical references and links. Version 3 has complete all 100 events; link to jesus-footsteps.com.

Tags: Event, Biblewalks, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-05-20

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ATThere will probably be......some kind of MD5 digest hashed to an iPhone private key which will be present on an update to the firmware. Yes?Yep - it's goneI tried at a Starbucks here in Colorado Springs and it asks for a user name, etc... vs just asking for you...

Tags: Wireless LANs, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, Starbucks Corp., Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2008-05-05