Comment: Screen filter (Score 1) 574
Someone needs to invest in one of those screen filters. They can just say it's for State secrets and pass it as a business expense.
Microsoft .Net Libraries Not Acting "Open Source"
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kdawson
from the promises-broken-or-forgotten dept.
from the promises-broken-or-forgotten dept.
figleaf writes "Three years ago, with much fanfare, Microsoft announced it would make some of the .Net libraries open source using the Microsoft Reference License. Since then Microsoft has reneged on its promise. The reference code site is dead, the blog hasn't been updated in a year and a half, and no one from Microsoft responds to questions on the forum."
Trolltech cancels Greenphone
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twilight30
twilight30 writes "From ZDNet:
'The mobile Linux development company Trolltech says that it has sold out of its Greenphone reference handsets and that it will not reorder further units, because there are now suitable alternatives in the marketplace. Trolltech launched the Greenphone in 2006, the first fully open handset designed for the development of open-source applications. Running on Trolltech's Qtopia platform, the device was supposed to stimulate the growth of mobile Linux'"
Australia cracked US combat aircraft codes->
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SpamSlapper
SpamSlapper writes "FORMER defence minister Kim Beazley has told how Australia cracked top-secret American combat aircraft codes to enable the shooting down of enemy aircraft in the 1980s. The radar on Australia's Hornets could not identify most potentially hostile aircraft in the region, but dispite many requests, the codes were not provided, so "In the end we spied on them and we extracted the codes ourselves".
The Americans knew what the Australians were doing and were intrigued by the progress they made."
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