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- New security law sacrifices privacy
- New security law sacrifices privacyThe best government money can buy!How is this bill in the interest of the people?Short answer: It's not.There are alot people who complain about bills like these but I wonder how many take the time to do anything about it. We must make these "lawmakers" understand...
- Tags: Government, licensor, sacrifices privacy, RIAA, New Security
- Discussion threads 2004-02-09
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- Laszlo demo: The write once/run anywhere (Flash,DHTML,Java,Silverlight) RIA dev tool?
- If you're like a lot of Web developers who want to turn their static Web sites in to something more rich and interactive (these days, referred to as Rich Internet Applications or RIAs), one of the challenges is in choosing a platform to target. The main choices are Adobe's...
- Tags: Desktop, Application, Platform, Rich Internet Application, Laszlo Systems Inc., Tool, Flash, OpenLaszlo, CPL, Laszlo Webtop, Open Source, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Is open source more secure?
- Is open source more secure?While I have my opinion...as to open source v. proprietary, I think the biggest security issues of either are poor IT management.Vote early, vote oftenThe poll results are currently showing 80% open source and 40% proprietary.Neat trick, eh?Security Through Obscurity ...Open source can't use "security through...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, security, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2007-10-02
- Google vs. Microsoft: Dueling DoubleClick testimony
- Google vs. Microsoft: Dueling DoubleClick testimonyMaybe Google made a mistake complaining aboutMicrosoft's search and crying anti-trust. As they say, pay back is a b.....straw poll?GOOG or MSFTWHo cares really?I mean its not like its going to change my life or put a buck in my pocket.All antitrust laws must...
- Tags: Google Inc., MSFT, Microsoft Corp., DoubleClick Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- Creative Commons, the Live Web, and quickie divorce info centers
- Dennis Kennedy pointed me to Shelley Powers, who pointed me in turn to Slashdot and Professor Lessig. All concern a lawsuit pending in Dallas, TX against Virgin Mobile and Creative Commons concerning Virgin's advertising use of a minor's picture posted by the girl's youth counselor to Flickr under a...
- Tags: Creative Commons, Web, Flickr, Shelley, Litigation, Business Operations, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- Google's inconsistent service policies
- Josh Greenbaum asserts: Google is the new evil empire – but now I really am beginning to believe it. I know that user agreements are typically ignored by most users, but anyone in the corporate world who ignores this risks seeing their IP in a Google marketing...
- Tags: Google Inc., Service, Josh Greenbaum, Content, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- Sun demurs from adopting GPL v3 for OpenSolaris, keeps CDDL only
- Sun demurs from adopting GPL v3 for OpenSolaris, keeps CDDL onlyGPL2/GPL3 compatibilityI suspect that the problem may be that GPL3 and GPL2 are incompatible with each other, so to maximize compatibility with GPL licenses you should release your code under GPL2 with a "or later versions" clause. That way you...
- Tags: Blogging, OPEN SOURCE, Sun Microsystems Inc., GPL 2, fewer license, GPL, OpenSolaris
- Discussion threads 2007-07-02
- Microsoft inks Linspire: Is Red Hat next?
- Microsoft inks Linspire: Is Red Hat next?Anybody notice a pattern here?Novell. Xandros, Linspire. What do all three companies have in common? They're based in the US, where they are subject to the patent system. Yet look in places like Europe, where software patents are laughed at, but interoperability deals are...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Red Hat Inc., patent, Linspire, GPLv3, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-14
- Larry Rosen takes the Internet Engineering Task Force to task over patent policy
- Larry Rosen, the man who wrote the book on Open Source Licensing, has penned an open letter to the Internet Engineering Task Force IETF regarding the formalization of a policy that paves the way for patented technologies to become IETF standards. The IETF is the organization that sets the standards...
- Tags: General, Open Source, Legal, Berlind, Internet Engineering Task Force
- Blog posts 2007-01-23
- Attribution may matter (in open source licensing), but making the Open Source Initiative whole matters first
- Just before the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, I wrote about how a handful of vendors including customer relationship management solution provider SugarCRM were distributing software under licenses that they claimed to be open source licenses, but that dont appear on the Open Source Initiatives OSI official list of...
- Tags: Berlind, Software Infrastructure, Open Source, General, Open Source Initiative
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
- Are SugarCRM, Socialtext, Zimbra, Scalix and others abusing the term "open source?"
- Are SugarCRM, Socialtext, Zimbra, Scalix and others abusing the term "open source?"More murky waterSince we are on a roll criticizing the abuse of the term "open source", lets consider the case organization open sourcing only part of their software stack, holding back parts in the hope that people will migrate...
- Tags: Scalix Corp., SugarCRM, Socialtext, Zimbra, open source, software, OSI
- Discussion threads 2006-11-21
- Hats-off to Microsoft for finally freeing Sender ID! Spammers, take cover
- Although it didn't open source the technology and there's no word on whether the open community will embrace it after originally turning tail and running from it years ago, Microsoft has taken a bold and welcome step by changing the terms of availability for its Sender ID anti-spam technology to...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Sender ID
- Blog posts 2006-10-23
- AMD chip socket makes room for others
- AMD chip socket makes room for othersThis could be an Intel KillerIf they can get a good floating point provider and a good SSL accelerator, they can overwhelm the Financials Monte Carlo as well as secure web farms.The Blade form factor needs this because of the lack of slots. ...
- Tags: IPSec, SSL/TLS, Authentication/Encryption, Servers, Network security, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., server, SSL, Torrenza, chip, graphics
- Discussion threads 2006-09-21
- Microsoft patent non-assertion covenant is remarkable
- Microsoft has issued a declaration -- something it calls the Open Specification Promise -- that it won't assert certain Web services patents it holds or may hold in the future. Martin Lamonica reports:Microsoft is pledging not to assert its patents pertaining to nearly three dozen Web services specifications--a move designed...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source
- Blog posts 2006-09-13
- An end run round copyright laws?
- An end run round copyright laws?Road Ahead = From Read Only to Read Write CultureLessing hits a home run with his comments. But the lawyers, lobiests and polititions most resposible for the read only do not speak up culture are powerful. You can identify them from the Microsoft Antitrust case....
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Lessing, Creative Commons License, GPL, copyright law, potato chip, read only
- Discussion threads 2006-08-15
- Major League Baseball takes swing at Sling Media
- Major League Baseball takes swing at Sling MediaLogicI am as much for protecting Intellectual Property as the next one, but I cannot help but laugh with glee when the illlogic of one party steps on the upside down lawn rake of technology and whacks them in the face. If I...
- Tags: Games, Cable, Network technology, MLB, Sling Media
- Discussion threads 2006-06-06
- Why DRM transparency is good for users and vendors alike
- As I've written many many times, digital rights management technology (DRM, also known as C.R.A.P.: Read why or watch CRAP: The Movie) is nasty stuff that I'd just assume be without. In the course of trying to manage rights, the "R" in most DRM technologies now stands for...
- Tags: Navio, digital-rights management, entertainment
- Blog posts 2006-05-23
- Resisting the Urge (MTV's Urge, that is)
- Apparently, MTV didn't learn from Sony BMG's mistake. In that "don't shoot the messenger" case where the messenger got shot, Sony's customers were outraged to find that the record label was including third party-provided rootkit technology what I called a Trojan horse on its CDs: a rootkit that did...
- Tags: MTV, Urge
- Blog posts 2006-05-23
- Will or could RSS get forked?
- Last year, Microsoft came out with an extension to RSS called Simple Sharing Extensions or SSE. Microsoft wisely published the extension under the Attribution-Share Alike Creative Commons license -- the same license under which RSS is freely usable. Back in November 2005, Dave Winer, who is widely...
- Tags: Buy.com, RSS
- Blog posts 2006-04-25
- Microsoft, EU clash over Windows innovation
- Microsoft, EU clash over Windows innovationMicrosoft, EU clash over Windows innovation[i]Microsoft will essentially argue that it should not have to give away its intellectual property, having spent effort and money inventing it, only because it became successful.[/i]Exactly. The built it, they put the money into R&D getting it done, and...
- Tags: Leadership, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Windows innovation
- Discussion threads 2006-04-11
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