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Comment Re:Wacky (Score 1) 232

by SarcasticTester on Thursday March 21, 2013 @06:29PM (#43240251) Attached to: GoPro Issues DMCA Takedown Over Negative Review

DigillRev should have ignored the DMCA just based on the fact that it states something about a trademark. They didn't even bother to read the intro on the WikiPedia page on the DMCA or they would have understood there's no way this letter means anything.

Becoming Agile 193

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 16, 2009 @11:29AM from the read-all-about-it dept.

IraLaefsky writes "The appropriately titled Becoming Agile: In An Imperfect World by Greg Smith and Ahmed Sidky offers a realistic path to the family of Agile practices which have become prevalent in software development in the last few years. This family of approaches to software development has been widely adopted in the past decade to replace the traditional Waterfall Model of software development, described in a 1970 article by Winston W. Royce 'Managing the Development of Large Software Systems.' The Waterfall Model stressed rigid functional and design specification of the program(s) to be constructed in advance of any code development. While the this methodology and other early formal tools for Software Engineering were infinitely preferable to the chaos and ad-hoc programming-without-design practices of early systems, these first tools ignored the fallibility of initial interviews used to construct initial design and often resulted in massive time and cost overruns." Read below for the rest of IraLaefsky's review.

Yahoo! Rejects Microsoft's Offer, Says 'Still An Option' 213

Posted by Zonk on Monday April 07, 2008 @09:33PM from the oh-just-get-a-room-already dept.

mikkl666 writes "In response to an open letter from Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! posted a press release claiming that Microsoft's offer 'substantially undervalues Yahoo!' and is therefore not in the best interest of the company. They also bemoan that the letter 'mischaracterizes the nature of our discussions' and that the threat to make an offer directly to the shareholders is 'counterproductive and inconsistent with the stated objective of a friendly transaction'. Nevertheless, they explicitly point out that a transaction with Microsoft is still an option, but only if they are willing to pay 'a price that fully recognizes the value of Yahoo!'"

3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License 313

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 07, 2008 @06:25PM from the damned-recursion-damned-recursion dept.

Rob O'Neill writes "A Kiwi open source developer is working on a self-replicating 3D printer, RepRap, to be made available under the GNU license. 'The 3D printer works by building components up in layers of plastic, mainly polylactic acid (PLA), which is a bio-degradable polymer made from lactic acid. The technology already exists, but commercial machines are very expensive. They also can't copy themselves, and they can't be manipulated by users, says Vik Olliver. RepRap has a different idea. The team, which is spread over New Zealand, the UK and the US, develops and gives away the designs for its much cheaper machine, which also has self-copying capabilities. It wants to make the machine available to anybody — including small communities in the developing world, as well as people in the developed world, says Olliver. Accordingly, the RepRap machine is distributed, at no cost, under the GNU (General Public License).'"

A Decade of OSS, 10 Years After the Summit 132

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 07, 2008 @12:00PM from the has-it-been-that-long dept.

Jacob's ladder writes "Ten years ago this week, the Free Software Summit arguably marked the beginning of today's OSS movement. Ars Technica interviews many of those in attendance when the revolution began. John Ousterhout, creator of the Tcl scripting language and Tk toolkit and founder of Electric Cloud was there, and notes how much the landscape has changed. 'When I made my first open-source release in the early 1980s (VLSI chip design tools from Berkeley), there were probably less than five open-source projects in the world. By the time of the first O'Reilly conference, there were dozens; now there are probably thousands. Also, open-source software has received substantial mainstream acceptance. 10 years ago, people were suspicious or afraid of it; now it is widely embraced.'"

Comment Re:Patriot Act (Score 1) 285

by SarcasticTester on Tuesday August 10, 2004 @11:24AM (#9929743) Attached to: VoIP Terms of Service May Surprise You

Thanks, I prefer communism over the patriot act anyday! I did that for quite a while, or maybe you are to stupid to remember the USSR?? I prefer that over the freaking Patriot act any day, cause then at least I know who is watching me and when I am liable to be picked up by the fucking gestapo (oh! sorry, they are called FBI these days right?)

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