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Google announced their new Google code open source center. Interestingly enough it is headed by Chris DiBona who founded SlashDot and Greg Stein who is the chairman of the Apache Foundation.
Considering the already large number of folks from Mozilla working for Google it is interesting to note how Google’s presence is now appearing in other open source projects.
(This article was published at Circle-ID)
As the year comes to a close, it is important to reflect on what has been one of the major actions in the anti-spam arena this year: the quest for email authentication. With email often called the “killer app” of the Internet, it is important to reflect on any major changes proposed, or implemented that can affect that basic tool that many of us has become to rely on in our daily lives. And, while many of the debates involved myriads of specialized mailing lists, standards organizations, conferences and even some government agencies, it is important for the FOSS community as well as the Internet community at large, to analyze and learn lessons from the events surrounding email authentication in 2004.
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Almost forgot to mention - a few days ago I posted a new draft of the consent framework. This draft (v0.03) has less insurance-policy language and more plain English, plus some pictures.
Another thought while I am at it - if you ever use Java Servlets, and wonder why everything stops working after switching to “multi-form” format - its not a bug but a feature. Pick up a copy of Apache Commons / File Upload package to fix the problem.
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