Posted on May 16th, 2007 by Jason Caminiti
Microsoft is claiming that Open Source software violates 235 of its patents. The article says that Microsoft is claiming that the Linux kernel violates 42 of Microsoft’s patents, and the user interface violates 65. I guess Microsoft has come a long way since they stole the look and feel of Lotus 123. Microsoft is certainly […]
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Filed under: Open Source, Web, News, Computing, Tech Law
Posted on May 9th, 2007 by Jason Caminiti
This article claims that most of malware (spyware and such) comes from a very few Web Hosting providers. The top four being:
Number of infected sites:
iPowerWeb                    11,000
Layered Technologies 2500
ThePlanet.com              2000
Internap                          1400
The report puts China far behind with their top ranked malware hosting provider being at 800. This part of the study is somewhat surprising. I think most people in the industry would guess […]
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Filed under: Spam, Open Source, Web, News, Security
Posted on May 1st, 2007 by Jason Caminiti
Dell has announced they will be shipping Ubuntu 7.0.4 Feisty Fawn on their new Linux based PC’sThis could be a really good thing for the Linux, as well as the Open Source Communities. I’m very cautious, yet also somewhat excited about this news. I’m still not convinced that Linux is ready for the desktop arena. I’ve been […]
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Filed under: Open Source, Linux, News, General