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Submission + - Prior art in Barracude-Trend Micro lawsuit

Submitted by Joe Barr on Monday June 23, 2008 @06:36PM

Joe Barr writes: Bruce Byfield reports at Linux.com that a Swedish developer, Goran Fransson, has "given a deposition in the Barracuda-Trend Micro case that appears to seriously undermine Trend Micro's patent on gateway virus scanning." Gransson has cobbled together a product sold by Ten Four, the company he worked for at the time, to prove that it provided gateway virus scanning in 1995. If you were — or worked for — a Ten Four customer at the time, you might be able to help Barracude prove that Trend Micro's case ignores prior art.

Submission + - Which is better on Linux: FF3 or Opera 9.5?

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Joe Barr

on Friday June 20, 2008 @05:27PM

Joe Barr writes: "Mayank Sharma has two stories on Linux.com this afternoon, one evaluating the performance of FireFox 3 and the second comparing it to Opera 9.5. Which is better? For most people, it's probably more a matter of familiarity or personal preference, but these stories provide hard performance data to consider as well."

Submission + - Open source business model using software patents? (linux.com)

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Joe Barr

on Saturday March 29, 2008 @11:25AM

Joe Barr writes: "Robin Miller has an exclusive video interview with Larry Rosen and Fred Popowich this morning on Linux.com about their new open source business model which includes software patents in its DNA. Larry Rosen? Once legal counsel for the OSI, using with software patents? Say it ain't true, Roblimo!"

Submission + - Fork the Linux kernel? (linux.com)

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Joe Barr

on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @08:27AM

Joe Barr writes: "Fork the kernel? Are you crazy? A blog entry on InfoWorld.com urged the Linux community to fork the kernel into desktop and server versions because, according to the author, all Linus Torvalds cares about is big iron. Sorry, but that's both wrong and stupid. Here's why."

Submission + - The birth of a FOSS application

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Joe Barr

on Sunday January 21, 2007 @08:48PM

Joe Barr writes: "Brice Burges explains why and how he created a new free software application, as well as what he learned from the birthing process, in a story on Linux.com. The story provides first-hand insights into the frustrations and satisfactions of developers working on free/open source projects."

Submission + - Johnny Cache breaks silence on Apple Wi-Fi exploit

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Joe Barr

on Monday September 04, 2006 @09:33AM

Joe Barr writes: "Johnny Cache — aka Jon Ellch — is chafing under the cone of silence placed over him and co-presenter Dave Maynor about the Wi-Fi exploit they presented at Black Hat and DEFCON last month. So he has finally broken his silence on the matter in hopes of ending the personal attacks coming from what he claims is a smear campaign started by Apple. NewsForge has the story."

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