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Submission + - Steve Jobs hints at Theora lawsuit (fsfe.org)

Submitted by netcrawler on Friday April 30, 2010 @11:00AM

netcrawler writes: Steve Jobs' open letter on Flash has prompted someone at the Free Software Foundation Europe to ask him about his support of proprietary format H.264 over Theora. Jobs' pithy answer (email with headers) suggests Theora might infringe on existing patents and that 'a patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other "open source" codecs now.' Does he know something we don't?

Journal Journal: Windows 7 to hit consumers with known security problem

Journal by hugoroy on Monday October 19, 2009 @10:39AM

Microsoft is about to launch its new operating system, Windows 7, on Thursday. While the company has done a lot to promote its new product with advertisement, in order to forget the very relative success of Windows Vista, it seems that security was not as much as a priority...

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