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Thank you Raed for providing a link to a new Iraqi blogger, Zainab. I liked Raed description of her as a wmoan. Interesting about how burglars use grenades in Iraq and the guy who blew his leg off by carrying one in his pocket!
More on the SCO/LINUX saga here is what a certail Bill Baxter predicted in 2000 Bill Baxter – Subject: Not Open Source, I’m afraid. ( Feb 23, 2000, 00:01:50 ) Note that these releases are not open source. SCO retain rights to the source code. Maybe they even hope that some of their code will […]
More on the SCO/LINUX saga here is what a certail Bill Baxter predicted in 2000 Bill Baxter – Subject: Not Open Source, I’m afraid. ( Feb 23, 2000, 00:01:50 ) Note that these releases are not open source. SCO retain rights to the source code. Maybe they even hope that some of their code will […]
And here is my new phone – when they are released in the autumn. loads of improvements over my existing treo270. Especially inbuilt mp3 player and camera. also ability to record conversations. it looks a winner to me. No wonder Palm wanted to buy Handspring!
More on the SCO story here apparently these guys have a history of buying old code and suing people even suing microsoft over sone DOS code and winning. Doesnt bode well for the Linux community especially since Microsoft are now behind them.
And here is my new phone – when they are released in the autumn. loads of improvements over my existing treo270. Especially inbuilt mp3 player and camera. also ability to record conversations. it looks a winner to me. No wonder Palm wanted to buy Handspring!
More on the SCO story here apparently these guys have a history of buying old code and suing people even suing microsoft over sone DOS code and winning. Doesnt bode well for the Linux community especially since Microsoft are now behind them.
Very bad news for the world of Linux. First Microsoft pay SCO a fortune for a UNIX license followed very smartishly by SCO suing everyone in Linux world for stealing their code (which apparently they never owned!). Now we hear that Microsoft have just bought GeCad for their anti-virus software. However, it just so happens […]
Very bad news for the world of Linux. First Microsoft pay SCO a fortune for a UNIX license followed very smartishly by SCO suing everyone in Linux world for stealing their code (which apparently they never owned!). Now we hear that Microsoft have just bought GeCad for their anti-virus software. However, it just so happens […]
Really good new here about the Polish people voting overwhelmingly to join the EU. I firmly believe that the ‘new’ countries joining will revitalise the EU, excellent skilled but very cheap young labour has to be a recipe for economic growth. Heres hoping that Czech and Slovakia have similar results in there referenda.