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US acknowledges CIA agents?-> 0

Submitted by njdj on Tuesday November 22, @02:03AM

njdj writes ""counterintelligence officers in Iran also succeeded in uncovering the identities of at least a handful of alleged CIA informants, the [U.S.] officials said."

No country ever confirms that its spies have been arrested. So what's going on here?"
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Open source library system faces trademark threat-> 0

Submitted by elkbuntu on Tuesday November 22, @02:03AM

elkbuntu writes "Koha is a NZ project started by a small rural library 12 years ago, the project delivers a respected open source library system that is used globally. They are under threat of being bullied out of their name by a company that wants to close the source. They are seeking support to help fight the trademark threat that they now face."
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Stallman Crashes Talk, Fights 'War On Sharing' 309

Posted by kdawson on Thursday September 23 2010, @08:29AM
from the no-problem dept.

schliz writes "Free software activist Richard Stallman has called for the end of the 'war on sharing' at the World Computer Congress in Brisbane, Australia. He criticized surveillance, censorship, restrictive data formats, and software-as-a-service in a keynote presentation, and asserted that digital society had to be 'free' in order to be a benefit, and not an attack. Earlier in the conference, Stallman had briefly interrupted a European Patent Office presentation with a placard that said: 'Don't get caught in software patent thickets.' He told journalists that the Patent Office was 'here to campaign in favor of software patents in Australia,' arguing that 'there's no problem that requires a solution with anything like software patents.'"

Comment: "Open Source" tells us almost nothing (Score 2, Interesting) 115

by njdj on Saturday August 07 2010, @03:29PM (#33175524) Attached to: CIA Software Developer Goes Open Source, Instead

Neither the post, nor the article linked, tell us much. "Open Source" just says that some people can read the source code. It doesn't tell us:

Who can read the source (licensees only?)
What you're allowed to do with the source

"Open source" doesn't mean "public domain". Somebody still owns the copyright, and can make permission to copy the source conditional on acceptance of a license. Then the terms of that license are all-important.