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Submission + - Company aims to patent security patches (eweek.com)

Submitted by

Jonas Maebe

on Friday June 08, 2007 @04:31AM

Jonas Maebe writes: "Someone thought up another way to profiteer from the software patent system: when a security hole is discovered, they'll try to patent the fix in order to collect money when the affected vendors close the hole in their product.. The company in question is not shy about its intentions: Intellectual Weapons will only consider vulnerabilities in high profile products from vendors with deep pockets. Let's be thankful for yet another way software patents are used to promote science and the useful arts."

Comment Wow (Score 1) 123

by OliverStannard on Saturday June 02, 2007 @01:20PM (#19364155) Attached to: Twenty Five Intel CPU Coolers Tested

1) Make review span 120 pages (literally) 2) Put 5 flash adds on each page 3) Profit!!!

Submission + - Congress members with RIAA pockets.

Submitted by palewook on Friday June 01, 2007 @10:15AM

palewook writes: The Consumerist posted a story containing the contact information of 50 United States Representatives & Senators who accepted RIAA money during their last election campaign. Seems like a good time to let a few people know how you feel about RIAA shills.

Submission + - Microsoft bullies UK developer (zdnet.co.uk)

Submitted by

ZDOne

on Friday June 01, 2007 @06:18AM

ZDOne writes: "Microsoft has shown that once again despite having a near bottomless marketing budget — it is supremely talented at coming across as ruthless and uncaring. The boys at Redmond have demanded — with very unsubtle lawyers' letters — that a London-based Windows developer withdraws a version of his free debugging tool from distribution, and is claiming that the tool breaches its licensing conditions. What's this about Microsoft finally seeing the light around the benefits of an open source community approach to software development — we are not convinced.

Microsoft angered by UK developer

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,3928 7310,00.htm"

Submission + - Fanfic Writers Say No Way

Submitted by

bill jackson

on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @03:13PM

bill jackson writes: "Multichannel News Magazine's very best blogger — Mary McNamara — says that a couple of former Yahoo execs are trying to create the next MySpace by aggregating fanfiction on a website called FanLib. But the fanfic writers recognized that exploitation was written all over the idea and they've refused to participate. Very interesting, well researched article written by McNamara. She even calls into question the FanLib patent application. http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1300000330/post/1 30010013.html"

Submission + - Climate Monitoring Station Proposed on the Moon

Submitted by

CryogenicKeen

on Sunday May 27, 2007 @10:26AM

CryogenicKeen writes: "From the Article: "Using data from an Apollo 15 experiment whose original intent was thwarted by unanticipated lunar surface conditions, the University of Michigan geophysicist recently showed that surface temperatures on the near side of the moon accurately record important information about Earth's climate system. Based on his analysis, recently published online in Advances in Space Research, Huang is calling for an international effort to develop and deploy monitoring stations on the moon for the study of terrestrial climate change." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/07052 5200427.htm"

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