Comment Shady tactics (Score 1) 219
LOL, what a shady way to one up Sony and Apple!
Comment Awesome! (Score 1) 176
This is very cool, don't know why it hasn't been thought of before.
Submission + - MPAA forced to fight for fair use? (nytimes.com)
V-similitude writes: In fighting to be able to use this tattoo under fair use doctrine, could the movie industry accidentally set a precedent here that could then undermine their case against fair use elsewhere?
Submission + - IBM Now More Valuable Than Microsoft (winbeta.org)
BogenDorpher writes: "In a recent report, IBM has now edged out Microsoft by becoming more valuable at $208 billion dollars. IBM's stock has risen over the past year and has barely surpassed Microsoft this time but Apple is still number one."
Submission + - Gnome to become Linux-only? (omgubuntu.co.uk)
Moderator writes: Is Gnome about to drop support for non-Linux operating systems? That seems to be the consensus after a recent discussion on the Gnome mailing list. From TFA: "It is harmful to pretend that you are writing the OS core to work on any number of different kernels...the time has come for GNOME to embrace Linux a bit more boldly."
Submission + - FSF campaigns against Nintendo 3DS (computerworlduk.com) 1
motang writes: "FSF is complaining about Nintendo and their TOS as to about how Nintendo and update the firmware on the 3DS without your knowing it and they can even brick your system they see fit it. If Nintendo thinks you are not using the system in a way they want you to, for example using R4 to play pirated games."
Comment Wait, what? (Score 1) 537
Isn't it against Islam to have pornography?
Comment Goodbye alternative versions (Score 1) 605
So this means we say goodbye to the Linux and OS X version.
Comment The after math of suing (Score 2) 255
I wonder if they has anything to do with the Samsung and Apply suing each other
Comment Not long at all (Score 1) 94
That didn't take long at all!
Submission + - Nintendo announces Wii successor (joystiq.com)
motang writes: Nintendo has officially announced the successor to the Wii. At it's investors meeting Nintendo said that have decided to launch the successor to the Wii in 2012 after the fiscal year, and will show it off and have playable version at this years E3.
Submission + - Toshiba makes self erasing hard drives (pcworld.com)
motang writes: Toshiba has made a line of self erasing hard drives. This means if your notebook gets stolen and the thief puts in the hard drive into another computer, the difference in hardware will start self erasing procedure, so your data won't get into the wrong hands.
Comment happy with my unlockable phone (Score 1) 274
I have a Sprint Pre, which is unlockable but I haven't done that. I'm happy with Pre the way it is ( software wise).
LibreOffice 3.3 Released Today 470
mikejuk writes "Only four months after the formation of the Document Foundation by leading members of the OpenOffice.org community, it has launched LibreOffice 3.3, the first stable release of its alternative Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. Since the fork was announced at the end of September the number of developers 'hacking' LibreOffice has gone from fewer than twenty to well over one hundred, allowing the Document Foundation to make its first release ahead of schedule The split of a large open source office suite comes at a time when it isn't even clear if there is a long term future for office suites at all. What is more puzzling is what the existence of two camps creating such huge codebases for a fundamental application type says about the whole state of open source development at this time. It clearly isn't the idealistic world it tries to present itself as."
Google Didn't Ship Relicensed Java Code After All 223
RedK writes "In a follow up to yesterday's news about Google apparently relicensing confidential Oracle code found in Java under the ASL, it seems that the blogger who initially reported the issue was plain wrong, as the files he indicated were in breach of Oracle's copyright do not actually ship with Android. Google has also deleted many of these files, which were mostly used as unit tests."
