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Submission + - Samsung Begins Shipping Hybrid Hard Drives

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writertype

on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @02:18PM

writertype writes: "Samsung has become the first company begin shipping hybrid hard drives, we report on ExtremeTech. Unfortunately, there's no word yet (besides "soon") on when retail shipments will begin, or when (or if) 3.5-inch models will be available. Note that these are different than the ReadyBoost USB flash drives optimized for Vista; hybrid drives contain a smaller amount of flash, and work as a write cache for your notebook drive, extending battery life."

Submission + - What the GPLv3 Means for MS-Novell Agreement

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eldavojohn

on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @02:00PM

eldavojohn writes: "I read a dry but interesting interview with a lawyer (Antoinette Tease) on the effects the GPLv3 would have on the well known Microsoft & Novell alliance. From her answers: "Unlike prior versions of the GNU General Public License (GPL), which did not address patent rights, the current draft of the GPL version 3 has several provisions that address patent rights. Section 2 states that the license to use the open source code 'terminates if you bring suit against anyone for patent infringement of any of your essential patent claims' based on any version of the open source program." She goes on to say "the GPLv3 as currently drafted would impose an obligation on Novell to somehow 'shield' its customers from patent lawsuits brought by Microsoft, or, alternatively, to make the source code publicly available...""

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