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Submission + - Open Source Vs. Free Software

Submitted by

rushhour

on Sunday December 17, 2006 @08:17AM

rushhour writes: "People used to be confused with Open Source Movement and Free Software Movement, here I got 2 interesting interviews on that hot topic: Richard Stallman , Founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation — From Copyright to Copyleft: the Freedom Software Movement http://www.hwswworld.com/uploaddownload/interview/ rms.mp3 Brian Behlendorf , Co-founder of Apache Project, Former Chief Engineer of Wired Magazine, Founder and CTO of Collab.Net — Open Source: Past, Present and Future http://www.hwswworld.com/uploaddownload/interview/ brian_b.mp3 Just wanna share with you Best, Ed"

Submission + - Corporate social contract with wildlife

Submitted by endangeredcritters on Saturday December 16, 2006 @12:29PM

endangeredcritters writes: Recently I wrote an email to Coca Cola's "Corporate Responsibility" email address crreview@na.ko.com, and I pointed out that Polar Bears are having a difficult time of this global warming thing http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A352 33-2004Nov8.html and that Coca Cola has been using their likeness for some time now. I received no response, so I ask SlashDot — do corporations have a social responsibility to assist those critters that they benefit from in their advertising ?

Submission + - 2007 Java Predictions in Java Developer's Journal

Submitted by jg21 on Saturday December 16, 2006 @11:16AM

jg21 writes: Java Developer's Journal has published the results of its end-of-year poll of various Internet technology players, from its own internal editors to industry high-ups like the founder of Apress, Gary Cornell, and including too the thoughts of professor Tony Wasserman of Carnegie Mellon West. Participants were asked to foretell what they saw happening in 2007. Among the predictions...Cornell: 'The open-sourcing of Java will have no effect whatsoever on Java's slow decline in favor of dynamic languages (Ruby, Python) and C#;' Wasserman: 'The use of the GPL 2 for open-sourcing Java will inhibit the completion and acceptance of the GPL 3 proposal;' and Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson: 'The stigma of being a Web programmer still using Windows will increase.'

Comment just for journal owners (Score 5, Informative) 434

by hsenag on Thursday April 20, 2006 @02:06AM (#15162908) Attached to: Livejournal Bans Ad-Blocking Software

A first reading of the ToS suggests that it is just journal *owners* who are banned from using styles etc to hide the ads from everyone. There's nothing to say that people *reading* the journal can't be running ad-blocking.

Two-Stage-to-Orbit Spaceplane Program Shelved 135

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 06, 2006 @10:56AM from the bad-news dept.

MadMorf writes "According to this article in Aviation Week, for nearly twenty years the USAF and "a team of aerospace contractors" has designed, built and tested a two-stage-to-orbit spaceplane, which could be used for "reconnaissance, satellite-insertion and, possibly, weapons delivery". Now this highly classified project may have been shelved for budgetary reasons."

Comment Put CowboyNeal in Charge � (Score 1) 560

by davejhiggins on Friday January 11, 2002 @06:59PM (#2826446) Attached to: Microsoft?

Haven't we had enough cowboys in charge at Microsoft already?

Dave

Comment Re:A very cunning plan by MS, or a bad mistake? (Score 1) 441

by Dom on Saturday September 04, 1999 @09:40AM (#1717523) Attached to: Hotmail Cracked Badly

Or maybe it's a convenient way for certain people to read your email as a matter of course?????

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