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Wine

Submission + - SwSoft relents thanks to Slashdot. (linuxworld.com.au)

Submitted by MrCopilot
MrCopilot writes: From the as if by magic department.
Via http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=97236753 8&rid=-50LinuxWorld Australia, Open-source developer Parallels finally released the source code for the Wine software used by Parallels Desktop 3.0 on Monday — but only after weeks of prodding by Wine developers and negative publicity on the IT forum Slashdot.

"What is yet to be verified is if these are the sources used to build the libraries shipped in Parallels Desktop for Mac.."

Sound like a challenge.
Democrats

Submission + - John Edwards on IP and open source

Submitted by goombah99
goombah99 writes: John Edward, the presidential candidate and lawyer, is emerging as quite techno savy. He has been guest hosting on Lawrence Lessigs Blog, giving his view on the current imbalance between property right protection and the good of public access. And he has become the first presidential candidate to support "open source code" for election systems in addition to voter verified paper records. He's even personally using a twitter.
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - FSF releases the GNU General Public License v3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), the world's most popular free software license. "Since we founded the free software movement, over 23 years ago, the free software community has developed thousands of useful programs that respect the user's freedom. The programs are in the GNU/Linux operating system, as well as personal computers, telephones, Internet servers, and more. Most of these programs use the GNU GPL to guarantee every user the freedom to run, study, adapt, improve, and redistribute the program," said Richard Stallman, founder and president of the FSF.
Linux Business

Submission + - Is it Time for a Patent War?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: With the state of current patent laws, and Microsoft's refusal to disclose which patents it views linux as violating, is it time for the lawyers in both camps to suite up? Linux has some rather hefty portfolios (ibm, sony, redhat) behind it, and it's likely the fallout would benefit open source. Regardless of which side wins a large amount of patents would be ruled invalid, and it is likely that a re-evaluaton of US patient law would be triggered. What does the Slashdot community think of a legal showdown? Isn't this why groups like the OpenInventionNetwork were formed?
Biotech

Submission + - Integrated HIV successfully cut out of humangenome (dw-world.de)

Submitted by Chris
Chris writes: German scientists have succeeded in snipping the virus that causes AIDS out of human cells, leaving them healthy again. The procedure is a breakthrough in bio-technology and fuels hope of a cure for AIDS.
The Media

Submission + - Wrestler's Wikipidea page altered before death! (yahoo.com)

Submitted by
sirrube
sirrube writes: "On June 24, 2007, Chris Benoit, a WWE wrestler was found dead in a bizarre murder suicide that included the loss of his wife and son. Hours before the death was reported by the police the Wikipedia entry about him was altered reporting the death of his wife. Investigators are looking into who altered pro wrestler Chris Benoit's entry to mention his wife's death hours before authorities discovered the bodies of the couple and their 7-year-old son. MSN News && Yahoo News"
Announcements

Submission + - New Dell-Ubuntu Systems

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Dell is now offering Ubuntu preloaded on two new systems: the Inspiron 1420N notebook, and the Inspiron 530N desktop. Could this be a sign that Ubuntu sales have gone quite well? Also, news that Dell will be offering Ubuntu systems outside the US, with further details later this summer.
Biotech

Submission + - Bush to Veto Yet Another Stem Cell Bill

Submitted by uberbrodt
uberbrodt writes: President Bush announced that he would veto the recent bi-partisan bill — which would have eased restraints on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research — but would alternately support research into 'pluripotent' cells. The NY Times notes that although an executive order was issued with the above intent, it provided no funding.
The Internet

W3C Bars Public From Public Conference 169

Posted by CmdrTaco from the tricky-word-speak dept.
xk0der writes "Danny Weitzner, one of the W3C's policy directors and event co-chair, repeatedly claimed in a follow up telephone conversation that, by "public," the W3C actually means "closed to the public." Weitzner was the person who personally barred my colleague from entering the conference." The story is worth a read- it's very strange. Personally I think this guy is just vying to replace Tony Snow at the White House.
Censorship

Submission + - Violent game banned in UK (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has banned the sale of the game Manhunt 2 in the UK. While the original Manhunt was given an 18 certificate, the sequel, due to be released for the PS3 and Wii this summer, was denied this classification. David Cooke, director of the BBFC, explained: "There is sustained and cumulative casual sadism in the way in which these killings are committed." The original Manhunt was mired in controversy shortly after its UK release when, in 2004, it was linked to a violent murder.
Mandriva

Submission + - Mandriva has no plan to sign agreement with MS

Submitted by
boklm
boklm writes: "François Bancilhon, Mandriva's CEO announced on his blog today that Mandriva had no plan to sign any patent deal with Microsoft. He says that "we [Mandriva] believe that the best way to deal with interoperability is open standards, such as ODF", that "we are, to say the least, not great fans of software patents and of the current patent system" and that "there has been absolutely no hard evidence from any of the FUD propagators that Linux and open source applications are in breach of any patents"."
Announcements

Submission + - Manhunt 2 Rejected by BBFC (pro-g.co.uk)

Submitted by
JamesO
JamesO writes: "The BBFC has today announced that Manhunt 2 for Wii and PlayStation 2 has been rejected, meaning the game cannot be legally supplied anywhere within the UK. The last video game to be rejected was Carmageddon back in 1997, although that decision was later overturned on appeal by the Video Appeals Committee.

The decision to reject Manhunt 2 was taken by the Director and the Presidential Team of Sir Quentin Thomas, Lord Taylor of Warwick and Janet Lewis-Jones.

"Rejecting a work is a very serious action and one which we do not take lightly. Where possible we try to consider cuts or, in the case of games, modifications which remove the material which contravenes the Board's published Guidelines. In the case of Manhunt 2 this has not been possible," said David Cooke, Director of the BBFC. "Manhunt 2 is distinguishable from recent high-end video games by its unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone in an overall game context which constantly encourages visceral killing with exceptionally little alleviation or distancing. There is sustained and cumulative casual sadism in the way in which these killings are committed, and encouraged, in the game."

Cooke goes on to say: "Although the difference should not be exaggerated the fact of the game's unrelenting focus on stalking and brutal slaying and the sheer lack of alternative pleasures on offer to the gamer, together with the different overall narrative context, contribute towards differentiating this submission from the original Manhunt game. That work was classified '18' in 2003, before the BBFC's recent games research had been undertaken, but was already at the very top end of what the Board judged to be acceptable at that category."

Under the terms of the Video Recordings Act an appeal can be made against the Board's decision. Manhunt 2 had been scheduled for release on Wii, PS2 and PSP on July 13."

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