Monday, August 23rd, 2004
While poking around Apache's website today, I ran across what may be the strangest file download mirror so far. It is located at mirrors.playboy.com and mirrors Apache, Fedora, FreeBSD and Perl's CPAN. The page says:
This is an unsupported open source mirror utilizing hardware and network bandwidth generously provided by Playboy ...
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Saturday, July 24th, 2004
Apparently the long debate about Microsoft's license for Sender-ID has attracted the Richard M. Stallman of GNU himself. In a recent message to the MARID list he said:
Microsoft's Sender-ID license is directly incompatible with free
software regardless of which free software license is used. Free
software means users are free to ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2003
I saw this in the Wall Street Journal this morning (here is a link, subscription required), before this got posted on SlashDot.
From the WSJ article:
"Now, SCO is preparing to wheel out the software-industry equivalent of a nuclear bomb: It will argue that the GPL itself is invalid, says SCO's lead ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2003
All these stories about large companies (Sprint, JP Morgan, and others) outsourcing to India brings some thoughts.
A lof the jobs moving overseas are programming jobs. If a company uses open-source products, and most of the IT effort involved is not programming but rather integration or service, than it would follow ...
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