Rendo - Slashdot User

Comment I run my own mud! (Score -1) 238

by Rendo on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @04:33PM (#25459343) Attached to: MUDs Turn 30 Years Old

And I have been for 4 years. It's a great experience, it's totally retro and I find it a lot more immersive than some of the "impressive" graphical MMO's can offer. Imagination is equally as powerful as graphics if you ask me. :D

1.8 Million US Court Rulings Now Online 94

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @02:18PM from the star-wars-kid-v.-lol-cats dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "For a long time now, lawyers and any serious law students have been bound to paid services like LexusNexis for access to case law, but that is slowly changing. Carl Malamud has posted free electronic copies of every U.S. Supreme Court decision and Court of Appeals ruling since 1950, 1.8 million rulings in all, online for free. While the rulings themselves have long been government works not subject to copyright, courts still charge several cents per page for copies and they're inconvenient to access, so lawyers usually turn to legal publishers which are more expensive but more convenient, providing helpful things like notes about related cases, summaries of the holdings, and information about if and when the case was overturned. This free database is not Carl's first, either. He convinced the SEC to provide EDGAR, and helped get both the Smithsonian and Congressional hearings online."

Microsoft Interested In More Linux Deals 256

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 10, 2006 @11:57AM from the of-course-it-is dept.

eldavojohn writes "Microsoft has announced that it would be open to more deals similar to the one it just made with Novell. 'We will love to put that kind of agreement in place with anyone who distributes Linux software, Red Hat, whoever else,' Steve Ballmer told India's Economic Times. Considering the recent reactions to the Microsoft Novell deal, it would be interesting to see who else takes them up on the offer. Novell is due to receive USD $348 million in up-front payments. Will Red Hat cash out on this offer if it feels the impending pressure from Oracle's Linux? Will non-profit Linux distributions attempt to make deals with Microsoft?"

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