IBM has released the code on 500 software patents to allow developers to use the technology to freely develop open source technology.
Three Ways to Adversely Impact your Google Pagerank
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Sun Yanks FreeBSD’s Java Licence
Yikes. I’ve never understood Sun, don’t think I ever will.
It’s in the FreeBSD Foundation Quarterly Newsletter, December 21, 2004
Novell, Red Hat eye virtualization for Linux
This Infoworld article reports: “Novell (Profile, Products, Articles) last week said it will soon detail plans to include server virtualization technology in its SUSE Linux operating system. Red Hat (Profile, Products, Articles) intends to do the same thing with its Linux distribution, and a leading contender for both vendors may be an open-source virtualization technology called Xen.”
Inaugural security draws on latest technologies
Hey, pretty cool, I helped built some of the communication parts of this.
Microsoft Launches Anti-Spyware
Well, they’ve done it. I sure feel better now that they are taking care of the spyware problems themselves. They’ve done such a *wonderful job* with security in the past, maybe I’ll let them hold on to the keys to my car, and my wallet, and my kids…
“I’d like to get a virus and give it to all of my friends”
Whitehat security testing
You can do great whitehat testing with Whoppix
MySQL readies beta of enterprise open source database
Infoworld reports version 5.0 to feature stored procedures, other enhancements
The Command Line in 2004
Unqualified code-monkey Garote submits his annotated version of Neal Stephenson’s In The Beginning Was The Command Line, updated to discuss UI design theory and fill in some of the gaps from the last five years. (And yes, he has been granted permission from Neal to do this.)
Solaris 10 negates the need for linux?? What?
This is quite possibly the most clueless view I’ve ever seen in reference to Solaris 10. This Economics Times article actually says:
” We now have Solaris10 — Sun’s brand of Unix free of cost . This is beating Linux at its own game. Why would anybody go for Linux — paid or free — developed by a dispersed community, when a validated version of Unix is available free? “
Isn’t the dispersed community the main stong suit of Linux? Sun has it’s own interests in mind when developing a “validated version” (whatever that means). Linux developers have developing a good system in mind. I choose good system over satisfying Sun’s investors when it comes to my platform.
