Article on free software and the "liberation" of Venezuela, which committed to
migrating all govt. offices to Open Source software over the next 2 years:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_10/professional_services_venezuela/
Borland drops its IDE tools business, leaving behind a legacy that started with
Turbo Pascal in 1983:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1922774,00.asp
A comparison of the Microsoft EULA with the GPL2, which shows how Microsoft
limit their liability to a mere a US$5 plus software cost refund:
http://www.asyd.net/docs/misc/comparing_the_gpl_to_eula.pdf
Whatever the reasons for Motorola using Linux for its phones are, encouraging
Open development by third party programmers doesn't seem to be one of them:
http://mobile.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/02/01/1655248&tid=104
The Palm Treo 650 now seems to be capable of running Linux. The GPE palmtop
environment is shown:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/linux-on-treo-650-gets-real/
Privilege escalation vulnerabilities found in Sun's JRE 5.0, centred around
unspecified errors in the "reflection" APIs:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3583696
Cisco's VPN concentrators subject to a DoS vulnerability, which was believed
patched but turned out to still be active:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/BE2B7D8115E5E9B1CC25710F000D7D16?OpenDocument
IBM To make cell-based blade servers available Q3 2006:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29575
And finally. If your sysadmin is listening to really weird music, he might just
be monitoring the health of your network in a novel way:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060209/tc_cmp/179102057
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.