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Comment Isn't this antithetical to GNU in general? (Score 5, Insightful) 1008

by jjb3rd on Saturday June 27, 2009 @02:47PM (#28496399) Attached to: Richard Stallman Says No To Mono

Mono is a free (GPL) reimplementation of commercial software. Isn't that how GNU got started in the first place? Didn't Stallman and friends reimplement the commercial Unix libraries as free (GPL) software? Wasn't he potentially violating patents? Why was it okay then when it's Unix, but not okay now when the technology came from Microsoft? Do the commercial Unix vendors holding those patents behave any differently than Microsoft (ahem SCO)? Mono is 2 generations behind Microsoft, yet has a pretty good stable offering and makes a very nice easy path for the majority of all developers in the world (WINDOWS Developers) to make the transition to Linux and GNU...this isn't something Stallman should be against, IMHO.

Comment That's a negative (Score 5, Funny) 527

by jjb3rd on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @02:18PM (#28269093) Attached to: Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic

I'm a comcast user and it works for me...perhaps his home network is the problem. A Linux user having a misconfigured network?!??! Oh wait this is Slashdot...nevermind.

US Financial Quagmire Bringing Out the Scammers 272

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 09, 2008 @09:22PM from the brother-where-is-your-empathy? dept.

coondoggie contributes this snippet from NetworkWorld: "You could probably see this one coming. With all of the confusion and money involved you knew there would be cyber-vultures out there looking to cash in. Well the Federal Trade Commission today issued a warning that indeed such increased phishing activities are taking place. Specifically the FTC said it was urging user caution regarding e-mails that look as if they come from a financial institution that recently acquired a consumer's bank, savings and loan, or mortgage. In many case such emails are only looking to obtain personal information — account numbers, passwords, Social Security numbers — to run up bills or commit other crimes in a consumer's name, the FTC stated."

How To Kill an Open Source Project With New Funding 187

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 03, 2008 @02:25PM from the money-still-the-root-of-all-evil dept.

mir42 writes "The OpenSource multimedia authorware project Sophie, formerly hosted by USC Los Angeles, may just have been killed by new funding. The original funding organization, Mellon Foundation, approved a grant to redevelop the four year project from scratch in Java. The grant was awarded to a Bulgarian company based on their proposal, which is simply an exact description, including the UI and the artwork, of the current Sophie. Being an OpenSource project, this isn't strictly illegal, but let's say, not nice and definitely not innovative, coming from a former sub-sub-contractor on the project. Some of the original, now laid-off developers started OpenSophie.org trying to salvage the project. As the current version is still somewhat buggy and slow, it might just be enough to alienate all potential users of Sophie to the point that nobody will even try to use the next version. Have others faced similar situations? How would you deal with a situation like this?"

Comment Re:Well it didn't exactly...WORK!?!??!?!! (Score 1) 280

by jjb3rd on Thursday April 24, 2008 @03:41PM (#23188174) Attached to: Why OpenSolaris Failed To Build a Community

It would have been a nice el-cheapo MSI KM4AM-V with a VIA 8237 chipset. Despite your claim that it's been integrated for some time, I recall doing a little bit of research at the time and there not being good SATA support. I don't really care anymore...YAUV (Yet Another Unix Variant) doesn't it for me anymore. How many ways can we repackage an old OS (same is true for the rest of the OS lineup)? Let's really see some modern libraries that the OS and app developers can use alike. Ironically Microsoft does more in this arena than anyone else despite their refusal to ditch the Win32 API, or at least depricate it.

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