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The Open Source Enterprise Trap-> 0

Submitted by AndyST on Thursday April 02 2009, @01:22PM

AndyST writes "Dj Walker-Morgan writes about a lock-in effect with vendors of open source enterprise software, apparently similar to what you know from the proprietary world. He calls this "limited support lock in".

By only supporting binary versions that they have supplied to enterprise customers, [open source enterprise vendors] have taken away the advantages of open source from the customer. What open source does for [the vendor] is give them a cheaper way of developing their software by allowing people to take the community code and enhance it, and they get the benefits of those enhancements. [...] An enterprise has to be prepared to ensure that the enterprise open source vendor they are dealing with is really as open as they need.

He closes with a checklist which helps to receive all advantages and freedom open source software."
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Novell, RedHat being corporate on Real Time Linux-> 0

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AndyST

on Wednesday December 05 2007, @06:01AM

AndyST writes "Always interesting to see how rival GNU/Linux vendors treat each other. (Spoiler: Just like any other two companies.) On the subject of real time linux, and the companies' respective procucts, a Redhad executive claimed Novell was selling beta code, their code. Novell's rebuttal, with a smirk, contins a "Note to Red Hat: this is open source, remember? [...] Just because Red Hat is again late to market [...] doesn't mean Linux contains "beta code."" It's just business, nothing personal."
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tv show hacked to display atomic explosion

Submitted by AndyST on Monday June 18 2007, @05:07AM

AndyST writes "The Prague Daily Mirror has a story about an artistic group in the check republic which, quote,hacked into the Panorama morning programme of public Czech Television's CT2 channel with an image of a mushroom cloud with a reference to the group's web page. Some viewers must have choked on their cereals when they saw the mushroom cloud (video)."

Vista remote control via speech recignition

Submitted by AndyST on Thursday February 01 2007, @10:44AM

AndyST writes "George Ou demonstrates a possible attack of websites controlling Windows Vista remotely via it's speech recognition. The basic idea is to include sound files that play automatically and contain spoken, possibly malicious commands. While Microsoft confirms this flaw, it seem quite unlikely that a user won't hit CTRL-W before some voice has finished spelling commands necessary to download and install malware."