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Submission + - Long-time rivals Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time

Submitted by NZheretic on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @06:49AM

NZheretic writes: Long-time rivals Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time, have dinner
Despite a dubious past relationship and lawsuits Long-time rivals Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time & had dinner.
I guess there must have been a Business Case for Microsoft and Open Source? as Linux is everywhere in Microsoft's tech these days. So how where the eggs?

Submission + - "First" OpenOffice virus emerges

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NZheretic

on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @11:19AM

NZheretic writes: "According to APCmag the "First" cross platform OpenOffice.org virus "SB/Badbunny-A" has been emailed directly to Sophos from the virus developers. It has not yet been seen in the wild.

Despite Sun's OpenOffice.org developer Malte Timmermann's claims to the contrary this kind of embedded scripting attack represents a real threat to OpenOffice.org users.

Back in June 2000 when Sun first announced the open sourcing of OpenOffice.org the twelfth email to the open discussion list put forward a two part solution for to provide OpenOffice users with Safe(r) Scripting using restricted mode execution by default and access by signed digital certificates. In October 2000 the issue of treating security as an "add-on" feature rather than a "system property" was again raised. Is it time to now introduce such measures to the OpenOffice.org Core to greatly reduce any future risk from scripted infections?"

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