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Submission + - VBulletin abuse of power?

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Anthony Boyd
Anthony Boyd writes: "A representative for the VBulletin software product has revoked the license from a site simply because he found the material objectionable. He initally claimed it was due to violation of law until people started quoting the law to him. Then he said they revoked the license because it violated some "morality" clause in the VBulletin license — but people looking at it are unable to find such a clause. What do you think? Was this capricious or reasonable? Is it justified in law? As a VBulletin customer, how secure do you feel about your license?"
Book Reviews

Collada 79

Posted by samzenpus from the make-it-a-3d-world dept.
Tony Parisi writes "Remi Arnaud and Mark C. Barnes' Collada: Sailing the Gulf of 3D Digital Content Creation is a great first book on a new technology for entertainment applications. Collada is a file format for the exchange of 3D game and interactive content, developed by a consortium of companies including Sony and leading digital content creation software vendors. Collada acts as an intermediate format between DCC tools and end applications — thereby promising to solve ages-old productivity issues in the 3D content pipeline. The authors have done a thorough job explaining this problem, and how Collada solves it, in an introductory book that is well suited for a technical audience building advanced 3D tools and applications." Read the rest of Tony's review.
Debian

Debian Delayed by Disenchanted Developers 329

Posted by CmdrTaco from the look-at-all-that-alliteration dept.
Torus Kas writes "Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 was supposed to be due by December 4 and development is currently frozen. Apparently the saga was triggered by disenchantment towards funding of $6,000 for each of the 2 release managers to work full-time in order to speed up the development. Many unpaid developers simply put off Debian work to work on something else."
Software

Novell "Forking" OpenOffice.org 370

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the patent-office-dot-org dept.
l2718 writes to mention that In the wake of their recent deal with Microsoft, Novell has announced a new version of OpenOffice.org which will support Microsoft's planned Office formal, Open XML. From the article: "The translators will be made available as plug-ins to Novell's OpenOffice.org product. Novell will release the code to integrate the Open XML format into its product as open source and submit it for inclusion in the OpenOffice.org project. As a result, end users will be able to more easily share files between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org, as documents will better maintain consistent formats, formulas and style templates across the two office productivity suites."

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