Friday, September 26, 2003|
LinuxQuestions.org: Interview with Jeremy Hogan of Red Hat Fedora is what Red Hat Linux was. Kind of the People's Republic of Myanmar to Burma. It's a project with rolling releases, not a product with predictable release dates, support, services, etc. [Linux Today] 5:16:05 PM 
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Microsoft Wins Summary Judgement in Smart Tag Case
from the over-so-soon dept. dan2bit writes "Business Week reports that a judge in Wisconsin handed down a summary judgement today in favor of Microsoft, defending itself from a patent infringement suit brought by small fish Hyperphrase over the embedding of 'Smart Tags' in Microsoft Office. The suit also produced some amusing minutiae." [Slashdot] 12:46:15 PM
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Microsoft Wins Summary Judgement in Smart Tag Case
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Librarians to P2P critics: Shhh!. In a hotly contested lawsuit before a federal appeals court, peer-to-peer companies Streamcast Networks and Grokster are about to gain a vast army of allies: America's librarians. [CNET News.com - Front Door] Our very own AALL has signed on to this brief. In short, the brief, authored by ACLU, says that Sony v. Universal City is the law that governs here. 12:38:19 PM
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Insecure about Microsoft's security. A group of experts issues a report saying Microsoft's dominance threatens the nation's infrastructure. Now, one of the authors is out of a job. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 12:24:58 PM
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Ransom Love, Co-founder of Caldera and SCO, Speaks of Unix, GPL and the Lawsuit. Q&A: The former CEO of Caldera and architect of its SCO acquisition disagrees with the company's legal campaign against Linux vendors—but he still thinks SCO has a case against IBM. [eWEEK Technology News] 12:23:07 PM
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Linux Advisory Watch - September 26, 2003. This week, advisories were released for vnc, krb5, php4, ipmasq, ssh, ARP, openssh, wu-ftpd, ipmasq, sendmail, proftpd and perl. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde Secure Linux, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, and TurboLinux. [Linux.Com: NewsForge Reports] 12:22:04 PM
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IBM Files New Claims Against SCO in Linux Case (Dow Jones). Dow Jones - BOSTON -- International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - News) has filed new counterclaims against SCO Group Inc. (NasdaqSC:SCOX - News) in the closely watched case involving the Linux operating system, according to a memo sent to the IBM sales force. [Yahoo! News - Technology] IBM claims SCO violated its copyrights by violating the GPL with regard to SCO's Linux distro. 12:17:33 PM
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