Alain Williams - Slashdot User

Submission + - Why Apple Won't Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone (wikileaks.org.uk)

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Alain Williams

on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @09:45AM

Alain Williams writes: "Basically because they want to continue to control everything that is run on an iphone — ensure that people have to buy stuff at their itunes store."

Submission + - MS Virus takes out 3 London hospitals (bbc.co.uk)

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Alain Williams

on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @03:07PM

Alain Williams writes: "3 London hospitals have had to shut their IT systems for 24 hours while they are disinfected from a MS Virus. When will these people ever learn ?"

Submission + - UKUUG continues court action on OOXML

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Alain Williams

on Thursday June 19, 2008 @09:06AM

Alain Williams writes: "UKUUG is continuing with its legal challance of BSI's action in approving OOXML. The next step should a hearing in front of a judge. They need funding to help with the action."

Submission + - Get scared RIAA (theregister.co.uk)

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Alain Williams

on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @09:55AM

Alain Williams writes: "More bands are considering putting music up for free/cheap download. Looks as if the meme is catching on. How long before the RIAA is down to it's last musician ?"

Submission + - PHP 4 end of life announcement

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Alain Williams

on Friday July 13, 2007 @07:56AM

Alain Williams writes: "Support for PHP 4 will end with this year ; security fixes will cease after 8 August 2008 which will be 4 years after PHP 5 was released. If your applications are not PHP 5 ready you have a year left — time to get coding & testing!"

Submission + - British courts uphold BPIF protectionism

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Alain Williams

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @08:23AM

Alain Williams writes: "The BBC reports that online retailer CD-Wow must pay £41m to British record companies after breaking a deal to stop selling illegally imported but legally bought cheap albums in the UK."

Submission + - GPL wins in German court

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Alain Williams

on Saturday September 23, 2006 @04:21AM

Alain Williams writes: "gpl-violations.org project wins in a court case on GPL violation by D-Link. The GPL was confirmed valid under German law."

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