Monday, December 08, 2003|
GPL is no hippie dream. Last Thursday, The SCO Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride posted an open letter on SCO's Web site arguing that Linux backers were threatening to undermine the copyright protections provided in U.S. and European law. McBride's posting was the latest in a series of public statements by SCO portraying the open-source operating system as a threat to the commercial software industry and an enemy of intellectual property. "There is a group of software developers in the United States, and other parts of the world, that do not believe in the approach to copyright protection mandated by Congress," McBride wrote. [InfoWorld: Top News] By Linus himself. 11:57:31 PM 
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Yahoo preps spam-blocking tech. Yahoo is working on a software package for open-source mail servers that will require authentication before e-mail will be accepted. [Ars Technica] 11:35:24 PM
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Yahoo launches paid service package. The Yahoo Plus package pulls together a number of paid services and Internet-based applications with a revamped version of the company's customizable My Yahoo Web page. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 7:57:48 PM
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Consulting Times: A Baker's Dozen from Novell's Chris Stone [Linux Today] 7:55:21 PM
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Java Goes to Wal-Mart. Sun is challenging Microsoft on a new front: the consumer market. Believing its Java Desktop System is "a more effective home and retail solution," the company is negotiating with major retailers Wal-Mart and Office Depot to include the desktop on consumer PCs and laptops. [eWEEK Technology News] Riiiighhhttt! I'm sure the average Walmarter is going to run the JDS. O'course. Walmart has done ok with Linux PCs on its website. 3:54:31 PM
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Microsoft to drop older products. The software maker says it is retiring several of its older products, including Windows 98, to comply with a court order related to Sun Microsystems and Java. [CNET News.com - Front Door] Win98 is essentially finished with no regular support and only hotfix support until mid January 2004. Time to update. 3:45:11 PM
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Johnny Cash - Secret Agent. Who Knew? [H]e was trained as a Russian linguist, and sent to an electronics intelligence (ELINT) site in Germany, where he monitored and copied Russian CW transmissions at 35 words per minute. Cash was credited with picking up the first... [En Banc] 10:50:44 AM
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BREAKING NEWS - Cornell Law School names Stewart Schwab new dean. From the anchor desk... Cornell University News Service says that Stewart J. Schwab, currently professor of law at Cornell Law School and a specialist in labor and employment law, has been named the new dean of the Law School. Read the full Cornell press [JURIST's Paper Chase] 8:41:41 AM
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SCO Loses First Legal Round in Linux Battle. A federal judge told SCO it has 30 days to respond to IBM's demands for details about the Linux code SCO claims encroaches on its intellectual property. [eWEEK Technology News] 8:32:23 AM
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