Itches You Shouldn't Scratch
July 31, 2008
OStatic: “The problem is that an awful lot of developers have the same itch - and they don’t always look around before they scratch it.”
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H D Moore has NOT been owned
July 31, 2008
Netstat -vat: “The story is not true - at least according to H D Moore who claims he was misquoted by the journalist in question.”
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Can Apple Break Through China's Great Wall of Counterfeits?
July 31, 2008
LinuxInsider: “To say that Apple takes intellectual property theft seriously is a little like saying iPods are somewhat popular; the company is willing to take young bloggers to court for leaking news about future products.”
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Sam Ramji, the Man Who Wants to Politely Steal from GNU/Linux
July 31, 2008
Boycott Novell: “Gavin Clarke is at it again. He does yet another Ramji/Microsoft glorification piece.”
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Bordeaux 1.4 Released with Microsoft Office 2003 Support
July 30, 2008
Wine-Reviews: “…version 1.4 comes with support for Microsoft Office 2003, Visio 2003 and Project 2003. Version 1.4 has improved Office 2000 menu support and Cellar support fixes. There has also been many small bug fixes and tweaks on the backend to improve the speed and reliablity of all the supported applications and games.”
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Developers' Delicate Dance With the iPhone App Store
July 30, 2008
LinuxInsider: “Developers pay the company $99 a year to be a part of the program, and Apple keeps 30 percent of the sales revenue. Software updates are offered on Apple’s timetable, which tends to slow things down when an application has a bug that needs fixing.”
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Putting the Sneer Before the Scoop: Joe Nocera and Steve Jobs
July 30, 2008
Standards Blog: “…although rumors have swirled, Apple has refused to state whether or not Jobs has had a recurrence of his cancer - or disclose any meaningful details at all. Even on calls with securities analysts, Apple’s response has only been that “Steve’s health is a private matter.”"
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Can AMQP break IBM's MOM monopoly?
July 30, 2008
Interop Systems: “IBM and Tibco between them control a whopping 93% of the MOM market, which the research firm estimates will be worth around $725 million this year. With a market share like that, IBM and Tibco can pretty much charge whatever they like (using IBM’s arcane “processor value unit” pricing scheme, WebSphere MQ will cost you tens of thousands of dollars per processor).”
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SplashTop "Instant-On Linux" Gets Hacked
July 30, 2008
Phoronix: “…members of the Phoronix Forums have hacked SplashTop. They have been able to run SplashTop from a USB stick on non-ASUS motherboards, boot SplashTop within a virtual machine, run custom applications, and launch a terminal within this proprietary Linux environment.”
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Microsoft Funds Apache
July 29, 2008
Builder AU: “Microsoft, one of the biggest rivals to open source programming, has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), one of open source software’s biggest supporters.”
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