Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Sat Nov 11 09:55:42 NZDT 2006

Today Index

US Courts rule the GPL fosters creativity, by enabling free distribution and building of new derivative works, not a restraint on trade:
http://www.internetcases.com/archives/2006/11/open_source_wit.html

A note to the designers of flash- and script-rich sites. Your page has 4 seconds to load before the customer goes elsewhere:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6131668.stm

Novell finally announce the official release of Mono 1.2, the latest version of .NET on the Linux platform. It still needs more work:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061109-8190.html

Mozilla release "highly critical" patches for Firefox 1.5, 2.0 not being affected. Version 1.5 will be supported until the 24th April, 2007:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2054122,00.asp

And finally. A thug attempted to rob illusionist David Copperfield. The perp was unable to locate David's cellphone, wallet or passport...:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/10/copperfield.robbed.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstorie

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.