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Analyst Admits Open Source Will Quietly Take Over 304

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the i'm-the-juggernaut dept.
ZDOne writes "In a few years' time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to analyst Gartner — which has up to now been fairly cautious, or downright negative, in its previous predictions about community developed software. '"By 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms,' predicts a Gartner report, The State of Open Source 2008, which sees a 'stealth' impact for the technology in embedded form: "Users who reject open source for technical, legal or business reasons might find themselves unintentionally using open source despite their opposition.'"
The Courts

Lecture Notes Considered Infringement 385

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the great-ways-to-encourage-and-enrich dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "According to a new lawsuit, taking notes in class is copyright infringement. Of course, it's not quite that simple. The professor is partnered with an E-book maker that wants to sell the material themselves, and the people taking notes pay students to take good ones, then sell copies to everyone else. But that just means that the case will hinge upon whether or not lecture notes are fair use. Either way, I wonder how long it will be before you will have to sign a EULA whenever you walk into class"
Privacy

UK ISP Admitted to Spying on Customers 163

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the don't-worry-sir-we're-from-the-internet dept.
esocid writes "BT, an ISP located in the UK, tested secret spyware on tens of thousands of its broadband customers without their knowledge, it admitted yesterday. The scandal came to light only after some customers stumbled across tell-tale signs of spying. At first, they were wrongly told a software virus was to blame. BT said it randomly chose 36,000 broadband users for a 'small-scale technical trial' in 2006 and 2007. The monitoring system, developed by U.S. software company Phorm, formerly known as 121Media, known for being deeply involved in spyware, accesses information from a computer. It then scans every website a customer visits, silently checking for keywords and building up a unique picture of their interests. Executives insisted they had not broken the law and said no 'personally identifiable information' had been shared or divulged."
XBox (Games)

Journal Journal: What's Wrong with Microsofts XBOX 360?

Journal by thepopehatesrap
There are seven stages of grief: shock, denial, anger, bargaining depression, testing and acceptance. But with the Xbox 360, which has been giving a significant number of its owners grief, Microsoft last week moved directly from the first stages to the last -- from denying any problems with it to admitting a US$1 billion problem that potentially affects all 11.6 million consoles sold so far. Full Entry:
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Journal Journal: I'm a rational being

Journal by Big Hairy Goofy Guy

I'm a rational human being. I'm an analytic thinker. I have a (magna cum laude!) degree in Mathematics from a respectable private university in the US. Both my parents are college educated, and they have both raised me with an ethos that reveres education, thinking, and moral behavior based on two things: 1) As a child, I was to follow the rules because they are the rules, and 2) The rules always have (some) reason.

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