Links 09/05/2008: GPL wins in court Again, 100% Free Software PC Finally Available
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-09 08:35:09 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-09 08:35:09 UTC
- Reliability Study Serves Up Good News For Linux Users
- Digium: Doubling Annual Sales with Open Source VoIP
- KVM and Xen cofounders engage in war of words
- JVM now compiles with Sun Studio on Linux
- Microsoft intensifies anti-piracy measures
- TorrentSpy Ordered to Pay $110 Million in Damages to MPAA
- Here’s my new Business Model: Assume my Customer is a Thief
- Three afterthoughts: OpenSolaris, XP SP3, taxing MP3 players
- Rich Green, viceprezident Sunu o open source
- Do we need to protect open source from the cloud?
- Tomorrow: Court hearing in Welte vs. Skype GPL case
- The GPL Wins Again - Welte vs. Skype Technologies SA (Germany)
- 199 Euro laptop with OpenOffice.org pre-installed
- Word Users, Prepare For Critical Update
- India and Belgium decry Chinese cyber attacks
- I Was A Teenage Bot Master
- India set to counter Chinese net attacks
- Fighting the agents of organized cybercrime
- Scary security numbers from Trend Micro
- LAC Now Shipping gNewSense 2.0 Systems (1 May 2008)
- Unixfication II
- Freenet: An Open Source, Anonymous Voice for Anyone
- Google Grilled on Human Rights
- Google addresses antitrust issue on Yahoo ad deal
- Next up: A Microsoft-Google antitrust fight?
- Red Hat Recognises Standout Partners at EMEA Partner Summit
- Red Hat Continues Middleware Industry Momentum
- VIA Gives 16,434 Lines Of OSS Code
- 5/7/08 - Parted Magic 2.2.
- Firebird 2.1: Released 18-Apr-2008
- GNU Guile 1.8.5 released
- San Mateo County levies a serious punishment for traffic violations: Internet Explorer
- SaaS, Open Source and the Migration of Burden
- Thoughts on JavaOne 2008 (mostly good, but lots of confusing messages from Sun)
- Getting business out of social connections
- Top Ten Reasons for a Linux Laptop
- Millionaires, Billionaires, and Open Source
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- people who go to a site like google.com or Google News or even social control media (where users get links from Google) will be directed to read slop, i.e. pure garbage.
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- consider the latest LLM slop
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- We also need to ensure that greedy firms/people that facilitate the SLAPPs get "disbarred" or "struck off"
- Mozilla Firefox Already Down to 1% in Brazil
- Don't people crave the surveillance and the slop?
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- The Rumours Were Likely True: Sixth Wave of Microsoft Mass Layoffs in 2025 (Days After "50" Anniversary and About 5,000 Layoffs)
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