Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 03:01 PM EDT |
Source: Oracle Laid Off A Bunch Of People
Yesterday --- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 03:02 PM EDT |
'Oracle Is The Most Dysfunctional Organization That I Had Ever
Seen' --- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 03:09 PM EDT |
its $7.4 billion to buy Sun and so far and this has
been one of the worst acquisitions in Oracle's history --- RMS: The 4
Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 03:46 PM EDT |
http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-praises-voluntary-bittorrent-crackdown-agreement
-120501/
I can't make sense of this. Does this have a substance, or it's just a bunch of
hot air? The article sounds scary, so I decided to bring this to everyone's
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 04:36 PM EDT |
linky [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 05:19 PM EDT |
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- While we wait - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 07:09 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 07:12 PM EDT |
<a href=
"http://blog.xamarin.com/2012/05/01/android-in-c-sharp/"
>linky</a>.
I guess Xamarin is hoping Google will buy them up :p.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 09:12 PM EDT |
I went to Apple's AppStore this morning, logged in,
found what I wanted, proceeded to checkout, Whoa!
To improve the security of my transactions, and help me
in case I "lose" my account details, I am invited, no,
compelled to provide answers to three, yes three
"security check" questions on data like the color of
my first car, and the name of my dog. Oh, and provide
an alternative email account for communication with me
in case my nominated account is compromised.
Now if I was buying a product I can carry in my hand, I can
still go to a shop, pay cash and walk away. The trader doesn't
know or care who I am. If his service and product is good
I'll probably come back for future business.
There are other software online stores whose only sin is spam.
Is Apple just suffering from an influx of bozos with their
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 11:47 PM EDT |
PHD Comics on Vimeo
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 11:49 PM EDT |
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/043012-linux-desktop-258724.html
From under the bridge
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Authored by: AlexWright on Wednesday, May 02 2012 @ 07:45 AM EDT |
Someone wake up the jury please.
Most of the world has been up for hours now, and we want to
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- Off topic - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 02 2012 @ 08:36 AM EDT
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Authored by: tiger99 on Wednesday, May 02 2012 @ 08:12 AM EDT |
BBC This is BIG,
although there is no guarantee that it will happen yet. "Giving
people the right to roam freely over publicly funded research will usher in a
new era of academic discovery and collaboration, and will put the UK at the
forefront of academic research," he said. Yes, clear thinking,
unusual for a politician. The "right to roam" shows that he is thinking of the
very successful (IMO) legislation which sorted out access rights in the
countryside."The challenge is how we get there without ruining the
value added by academic publishers." Well, I don't think they have
ever added any value at all, but he has to say that, and try to keep them
happy.If implemented the action is likely to mean huge cost savings
for academic libraries. Precisely!Their representative
body said that the UK's higher education sector currently spent about £200m a
year accessing UK-based and international research published in journals and
databases .
"We think it will drive innovation and work out cheaper for
the UK as we are presently paying a lot on duplicating access to materials,"
said Research Libraries UK's executive director David Prosser.
"It
would also bring wider benefits to the economy as biotech firms and other small
start-ups would find it easier to access research." Can other small
startups please have free access to other things, such as standards,
too?Springer, Elsevier and Wiley are the three biggest companies set
to be affected by the shake-up.
None were able to provide comment when
contacted by the BBC. No surprises there. The parasites are
speechless.....We don't do politics here, but I wish the government well with
this one. The FOSS community should be watching this, as the prevailing climate
in government may favour them (us!) too.
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