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Submission + - MPAA Forced To Take Down University Toolkit (livejournal.com)

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bobbocanfly

on Monday December 03, 2007 @07:29PM

bobbocanfly writes: "An Ubuntu developer has succeeded in getting the MPAA to remove their "University Toolkit" after claims it violated the GNU GPL. After several attempts to contact the MPAA directly the developer eventually emailed the groups ISP and the violating software was taken down."

Submission + - Ubuntu Linux = Genuine Windows? (blogspot.com)

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bobbocanfly

on Sunday June 17, 2007 @05:16PM

bobbocanfly writes: "Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few years you will have heard about the problems with the Windows Genuine Advantage system. Well here is another one. A user at UbuntuForums.org managed to validate their Ubuntu installation as a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows and get to the download page of Windows Defender, using IE4Linux and Wine. This along with the advancement of LiveCD technology could mean the end of Microsoft's control over who gets their updates."

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