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Submission + - SCO vs Novell: Novell wins

Submitted by Aim Here
Aim Here writes: Breaking News: According to Novell's website, and the Salt Lake Tribune, the jury in the SCO vs Novell trial has returned a verdict: Novell owns the Unix copyrights. This also means that SCO's case against IBM must surely collapse too, and likely the now bankrupt SCO group itself. It's taken 7 years, but the US court system has eventually done the right thing...

Submission + - Novell has UNIX copyrights, SCO does not (sltrib.com)

Submitted by RichMan
RichMan writes: The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting that the jury has reached a verdict in SCO's slander of title case against Novell. Apparently SCO does not own the copyrights it accused Novell of slandering.
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  A federal jury Tuesday found that Novell Inc., and not The SCO Group, owns the copyrights to the Unix computer operating systems used by many businesses.
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Programming

Submission + - Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Ted Dziuba can't wait for NoSQL to die. Developing your app for Google-sized scale, says Dziuba, is a waste of your time. Not to mention there is no way you will get it right. The sooner your company admits this, the sooner you can get down to some real work. If real businesses like Walmart can track all of their data in SQL databases that scale just fine, Dziuba argues, surely your company can, too.

Submission + - Adobe Prefer jQuery To Flash

Submitted by tingentleman
tingentleman writes: I just got my CS5 preview invite (for April 12th) and viewing source on this slick site ( http://cs5launch.adobe.com/ ) shows that the visual wizardry comes from jQuery + Cufon rather than Flash. Do even Adobe now realise that Flash is not the best technical solution for accessible visual magic?
Databases

Submission + - Digg says yes to NoSQL, bye to MySQL

Submitted by donadony
donadony writes: After twitter, now is Digg who decided to replace MySQL and most of their infrastructure components and move away from LAMP to another architecture called NoSQL that is based in Casandra, an opensource project that develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database. Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008 and is licencied under Apache Licenses.
The reason of this move as explained by digg is that their primary motivation for moving away from MySQL was the increasing difficulty of building a high performance, write intensive, application on a data set that is growing quickly, with no end in sight. This growth has forced them into horizontal and vertical partitioning strategies that have eliminated most of the value of a relational database, while still incurring all the overhead
Displays

Companies To Invade Your Retinas As Soon As Next Year? 245

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the play-with-it-and-you'll-go-blind dept.
Engadget is one of many reporting that Brother and NEC both seem to have retina display technology in the works for release next year. Brother, at least, seems to have a fully functional prototype, while so far NEC is mostly talk. "Naturally, there are a few considerable limitations compared to more traditional displays, but the company's as yet unnamed goggles do promise to beam an 800 x 600 image directly into your retina that'll appear as a 10-centimeter wide image floating about one meter in front of them -- which is certainly no small feat, even if it may not be the most practical one. Slightly less specific, but also working on a retina display of its own is NEC, which apparently hopes to incorporate a microphone into their display and use it as a real-time translation device that would quite literally display subtitles as you talk to someone."
Government

White House Website Switches To Open Source 219

Posted by Soulskill from the what-world-is-this dept.
Falc0n writes "WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor of the latest version of the open-source Drupal software. Dries Buytaert reflected on this, adding: 'this is a clear sign that governments realize that Open Source does not pose additional risks compared to proprietary software, and furthermore, that by moving away from proprietary software, they are not being locked into a particular technology, and that they can benefit from the innovation that is the result of thousands of developers collaborating on Drupal.'"
Medicine

Submission + - Microsoft Invents Making You Hate Your Fat Self

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Perhaps it's easiest to just let Microsoft's newly-disclosed patent application for What You Will Look Like in 10 Years speak for itself: 'Many people out of sheer laziness refrain from partaking in physical activity and consume unhealthy food. This avoidance is borne out by the soaring demographic of persons who can be classified as being obese and who continually and incessantly eat fast foods (e.g., hamburgers, french fries, pizza, hot dogs, etc.) and then proceed to 'supersize' the order for a marginal increase in price, for example. In most instances, if people were pictorially or visually made aware of the consequences of their choices and actions, many, if not most, would modify their behavior and life style selections to comport with a healthier body image.' Can we count on seeing this negative body image feature in Microsoft HealthVault anytime soon?
AMD

Submission + - AMD giving away free "half life 2: lost coast&

Submitted by Vo1t
Vo1t writes: I would like to share with the /. community the news about AMD giving away Half Life 2: Lost Coast and Deathmatch for all their customers. This page gives you details on what you have to do to get them.

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