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Sun Microsystems

Submission + - Sun Says Project Indiana is Not a Linux Copy (theregister.co.uk)

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "Ian Murdock (Debian author & Sun's OS Chief) made some comments about Project Indiana that many have said is an attempt to make Solaris simply "more Linux-like." But Murdock quashes any concerns that this is just another Linux clone — muddying up the waters of distribution selection. He says that it's more a 'best of both worlds' attempt to make an OS that appeals to a broader audience. From the article, "Project Indiana will include a revamped package management system, which should prove popular with developers unaccustomed to Solaris. The OS has some clunky, archaic aspects, and Murdock thinks the new package system will modernize Solaris.""
Intel

Submission + - Intel says EC's antitrust case is wrong (mercurynews.com)

Submitted by SplatMan_DK
SplatMan_DK writes: According to this article at MercuryNews.com, The European Commission relied on incorrect assumptions and mistaken conclusions to bring antitrust charges against Intel, the company's top attorney said Friday. Europe's antitrust watchdogs notified Intel of the charges Thursday, alleging that the world's largest chip maker abused its dominant position by trying to exclude AMD from the $33 billion semiconductor market...
United States

Submission + - US -Saudi arms deal (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by jb.cancer
jb.cancer writes: The US it seems is preparing for major arms deal with Saudi Arabia. This includes missile systems and fighter jets. The stated purpose is along the lines of countering Iranian military strength.

Well it could be called paranoia, but the last time the US supplied an anti-Iran country with weapons things didn't turn out quite well for the recipient a decade or two down the line. Now Osama and family are from Saudi Arabia, which sounds like a good enough reason (provided the place has enough oil to attract the right people) to...
Google

Submission + - Google plans youtube Antipiracy tool

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nevillethedevil
nevillethedevil writes: "PCWorld is reporting that Google have announced a new antipiracy tool for Youtube to be launched by September. This announcement comes as part of the lawsuit battle with Viacom. From the article. "The technology will be as sophisticated as fingerprint technology used by the FBI and Google plans to roll it out in the fall, "hopefully in September," attorney Philip S. Beck of Barlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP told U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton, according to the AP. Fall runs from late September to late December.""
Censorship

Submission + - MPs outlaw satire in New Zealand

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mernil
mernil writes: "New Zealand's Parliament has voted itself far-reaching powers to control satire and ridicule of MPs in Parliament, attracting a storm of media and academic criticism. The new standing orders, voted in last month, concern the use of images of Parliamentary debates, and make it a contempt of Parliament for broadcasters or anyone else to use footage of the chamber for "satire, ridicule or denigration"."
Communications

Submission + - Vodafone Tipped for iPhone Agreement (timesonline.co.uk)

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bobmarleypeople
bobmarleypeople writes: "According to an article on The Times Online, it's rumoured that Vodafone will be the network provider for the Europe release of the iPhone. However as the article states: "Vodafone faces stiff competition for the exclusive rights to distribute the handset in Europe from rivals such as Orange and the German-owned T-Mobile. ... The relatively greater upside for smaller UK players such as T-Mobile means they will not retire from the negotiating table without a furious fight." So don't go out buying Vodafone SIM cards just yet."
Space

Submission + - Return of the Static Universe

Submitted by Dr. Eggman
Dr. Eggman writes: According to an article on ars technica and its accompanying General Relativity and Gravitation journal article The return of a static universe and the end of cosmology, in the far future of the universe, all evidence of the origin of the universe will be gone. Intelligences alive 100-billion-years from now will observe a universe that appears much the way our early 1900s view of the universe was: Static, had always been there, and consisted of little more than our own galaxy and a islands of matter.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Flash game illustrates BSA anti-piracy thinking

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Turkish branch of the BSA is promoting a somewhat bizarre Flash game titled 'Korsanavcisi' ("Piratehunter") where you guide a BSA agent in suit and sunglasses around a maze and smack software pirates carrying sacks filled with illegal CDs with a "Copyright and Royalties Law" book. Upon being smacked with "the Law", the pirates become immobilized and turn into sheepish looking but legal software users. But beware — any pirates left on the loose can turn "cured" software users back into software pirates on contact. You must thus hunt down every last pirate within a set time limit to advance to the next stage, brave Piratehunter! Arrowkeys move the agent around the maze. Space brings copyright law down on the Pirates.
Software

Submission + - Jim Butterfield Passes Away (google.com)

Submitted by
outZider
outZider writes: "Jim Butterfield passed away last night at 1:30 in the morning from complications from cancer, according to a thread in comp.sys.cbm. He inspired many a geek who hacked their way through a Commodore 64 in the old days. He certainly helped me explore the inner workings of these machines, and how to write better code. He will be missed."
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - How Many FOSS Developers in the World?

Submitted by niyam
niyam writes: Somebody threw me quite a curve the other day: How many active FOSS developers exist in the world? An off-the-cuff and non-validated remark like "oh! about 10% software developers must be developing free software..." makes no sense! So first step: It took me time to define 'FOSS developer' for myself: Someone who authors software under ANY free license as mentioned on the fsf.org site, and for any platform. gpl, bsd, Apache, MIT, etc.... Sourceforge currently displays: Registered Projects: 151,709 Registered Users: 1,621,651 But that doesn't mean anything. Some large corporations like Google, IBM, Intel, Apple, even Infosys..., may just have a large pool of engineers writing software that is published as Free software. I also wonder if 'foss developer' should include QA teams and documentation-people. Slashdotters, any help? niyam
Technology (Apple)

Submission + - Steve Jobs addresses new AT&T/iPhone controver (blorge.com)

Submitted by
destinyland
destinyland writes: "Working Assets is calling for a boycott of the iPhone. Locking all iPhones to AT&T is unnecessary, they argue, and AT&T is "a corporation whose practices seem to run counter to everything Apple stands for..." (They specify AT&T's stand on net neutrality, warrantless wiretapping, and their handing over of customer records to the NSA.) This article says Steve Jobs was asked specifically about the AT&T lock-in Thursday, and he responded that AT&T's GSM network makes the iPhone a "world phone". But asked point-blank about whether other U.S. carriers would service the iPhone — he didn't answer."
Announcements

Submission + - Car bomb found in central London (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by include($dysmas)
include($dysmas) writes: from the bbc : Police say the area will be closed for some time Police have disabled a car bomb containing gas cylinders in the heart of central London.

Officers carried out a controlled explosion after reports of a suspicious vehicle parked in Haymarket shortly before 0200 BST (0100 GMT).

Professor Paul Wilkinson, a terrorism expert, said a passer-by had tipped off the police and officers would be concerned they did not have advanced intelligence.

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