Comment: Don't they know... (Score 1) 97
That playing pool with planets is a perfectly good way to plug up a white hole.
Petition to open OS/2 source, round/2-> 1
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The_Wilschon writes "On September 25, 2005, OS2World.com sent a petition with 11,613 signatures to IBM, asking them to release some or all of the source code to OS/2. Oddly, given IBM's embrace of the Open Source movement, the letter was ignored. So, on November 19 of this year, OS2World.com sent a second letter. They have also opened up a second petition round in order to show even more support to IBM for their requests. In particular, the System Object Model (SOM), Workplace Shell (WPS), and OS/2 kernel could both spur new OS/2 development and provide some fresh ideas to the Free Software world."
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Mozilla: when more bugs can mean tighter security
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biscuitfever11 writes "The outspoken head of Mozilla Europe Tristan Nitot has coughed up a few gems in this interview with ZDNet, not least in the security wars against Internet Explorer. Nitot readily acknowledges the massive number of bugs that affect the open source browser, but says that it's the Mozilla community which makes the browser far safer than IE will ever be. Nitot said: "I'm surprised that bug counting, which is a terrible metric, was used by Microsoft. It isn't easy to assess security, but bug counting definitely isn't the way to do it. I'd rather talk about time to fix the duration of the window where users are at risk, which in our opinion is a much better metric. People within the Mozilla community have a better-than-average understanding of this — we work together and have to trust each other." http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39291344-1,00.htm"
Debian conference final report
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kyllikki
kyllikki writes "The Debian folks have finally released their conference report which like their OS had to wait "until it was ready" but at least its wasn't 18months late!
Apparently around four hundred Debian developers went and had fun in Edinburgh. As would be expected an interesting selection of talks occurred but more interesting were their other activities which included dancing around in skirts and organ repair!
Hopefully their conference will assist them to release an updated release soon and gain back some of the ground lost to Ubuntu and the other derivatives which seem much more appealing these days."
Apparently around four hundred Debian developers went and had fun in Edinburgh. As would be expected an interesting selection of talks occurred but more interesting were their other activities which included dancing around in skirts and organ repair!
Hopefully their conference will assist them to release an updated release soon and gain back some of the ground lost to Ubuntu and the other derivatives which seem much more appealing these days."