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Author: RickRick
Date: May 1, 2008 23:52
Ezekiel wrote:
> http://www.thejournal.com/articles/22070
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> Microsoft has announced a software giveaway program targeted to college and
> high school students. "DreamSpark" makes available, at no charge, a number
> of development and design programs for download. The program is now
> available to more than 35 MILLION college students in Belgium, China,
> Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K. and the
> United States.
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... and Microsoft is only doing this becasue they fear the competition
with OSS.
Still can't configure your software, I see.
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Rick
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Author: RickRick
Date: May 1, 2008 23:45
Hadron wrote:
> Tim Smith mouse-potato.com> writes:
> >> In article supernews.com>,
>> Rick nomail.com> wrote:>>>> How often does the most likely suspect after such a disappearance try to
>>>> hide his car so police won't be able to search it?
>>> Is that what Reiser did?
>> Yes. The police had a warrant to search the car, and were trying to
>> find it. Reiser went looking for storage lockers 50 miles away to try
>> to find a place to hide the car from the police. (This is not
>> speculation--Reiser testified to this at the trial).
>
> Oh my god. Rick is joining in on the "He was framed" route - is there
> anything these "works for me" advocates will hear that is negative about
> Linux or one of its main "personalities" without...
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Author: Roy SchestowitzRoy Schestowitz
Date: May 1, 2008 21:58
Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Social networks are still too closed
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| Speaking at IBM's Business Partner Leadership Conference here, Google CEO
| Eric Schmidt reiterated his position that social networks are still too
| closed. "If it's not searchable by Google, it's not open, and open is best
| for the consumer," he said.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9933627-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3...
Related:
GPL author: Google must share code
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| Companies like Google that build their business on software such as
| Linux have a moral imperative to contribute back to the free
| software community, a prominent open source advocate said Tuesday.
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Author: Roy SchestowitzRoy Schestowitz
Date: May 1, 2008 21:57
Mini Review: Open Source in Harvard Business Review
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| As the CEO's quest continues, she begins to worry that in many people's eyes
| her company is seen as the overly powerful corporate enemy with an iron grip
| on its IP. Then she worries...
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Author: Roy SchestowitzRoy Schestowitz
Date: May 1, 2008 21:55
Start-up adds standard PCs to storage pools
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| Kapsean Inc. makes software called iSCUBE, which consists of a Linux-based
| storage server operating system that takes disks from multiple x86 PCs,
| aggregates the storage (compare storage products) and allows administrators
| to move storage units across such devices as Windows servers, desktops and
| notebooks, said Roger Gaudet, Kapsean's vice president of engineering and
| chief architect.
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http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName...
http://tinyurl.com/5p97hh
Sun is trying to do the right thing also:
Sun Leads Developers Down the Open Storage Path
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| As a way of nurturing the developer community surrounding its open storage
| initiative, Sun Microsystems is putting together a cookbook of sorts. Sun has
| released a couple of recipes to help developers create storage units using
| its Solaris operating system.
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Author: Roy SchestowitzRoy Schestowitz
Date: May 1, 2008 21:47
Yahoo-Google Pact May Be Close
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| Yahoo Inc. could announce an agreement to carry search advertisements from
| Google Inc. within a week, as it braces for Microsoft Corp. to go hostile or
| abandon its unsolicited acquisition offer for Yahoo, say people familiar with
| the matter.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120968562237161201.html
Recent:
Yahoogle? Microspace? It makes Google look good
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| "We view Google as a winner," said Stanford Group analysts Clayton Moran and
| Frederick Moran in a report. They believe the new options have the potential
| to slow Microsoft's acquisition attempt, complicate already formidable
| integration challenges by Google rivals, and increase Google's share of the
| search market if Yahoo relies on it.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9916412-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0...
Another reason Microsoft should give up on Yahoo: Morale
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