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[newsforge daily] February 26, 2003
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 05:30:25 EST
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February 26, 2003
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SCO offers Linux and UNIX courseware for sale to all http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/143215
- by Tina Gasperson - SCO announced that anyone can now purchase the company's Linux and UNIX courseware for the purpose of conducting training and certification, but only "authorized partners" will get the best deals.
Operating systems will soon be obsolete
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/24/1717223
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Linux, Windows, Mac. All have their place, and before long that place will be in history books. The seeds of a new style of computing device have been sown, and as they grow they will inevitably lead to a world where the computer operating system as we know it today is as dead as the planetary transmission that drove the Model T Ford.
Purdue IT director left law school, helped start the Internet http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/24/1737252
- by Tina Gasperson - Jim Bottum, vice president for IT at Purdue University in Indiana, used to be the executive director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and he was part of the beginning of the Internet. Really. The funny thing is, he was studying to be a lawyer when circumstances swept him into nerdy IT stuff - and there he has remained.
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Java Wars: Microsoft Countersues Sun
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/2222206
Microsoft has filed a counterclaim in Sun Microsystems' private antitrust lawsuit against the software giant that asserts Sun broke a contract that allowed Microsoft to distribute its own version of Java.
The Age: Microsoft softens stance
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/223228
Anonymous Reader writes "Microsoft and Linux evangelists called a truce
in the open-source war last week for a seminar examining the use of
open source by government agencies. Microsoft acknowledged the
open-source genie was "out of the bottle" to 150 government and
industry representatives at the one-day seminar organised by the
Federal Government's National Office for the Information Economy
(NOIE)......"
Sun's Rx mixes testing and provisioning
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/2150237
In covering enterprise information technologies for more than a decade, I periodically hear about palliatives that will sooth the biggest pain point for any IT professional or department: change.
"Trusted" Computing and Digital Rights Management http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/2113217
Anonymous Reader writes "Recent reports available with news sites and also published in the Economic Times of India suggest that Microsoft will be pushing through the Windows Rights Management Architecture & Services [WRMA & WRMS] by the 1st week of March, 2003. In the light of such an event, this article proposes to establish the fallacy of the Trusted Computing paradigm as made available in public document(s) from TCPA"
Open Source Hits The Open Road - From Business 2.0 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/2110259
An anonymous reader writes "According to a new story on the Business 2.0 Web site, Linux operating system is increasingly being used to run mobile phones and PDAs. "But Linux-powered mobile devices will face stiff competition in an already crowded market. According to research firm IDC, one out of every two high-end mobile phones currently in use runs the Symbian operating system, which was developed by a consortium that includes Motorola, Nokia ...
African OSS foundation kicks off in Geneva http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/2017255
Anonymous Reader writes "Following months of preparation the Free Sotware and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) was formally launched last week at the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) prepcom II meeting in Geneva."
Roll Your Own $450 Linux Box
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/1915248
In your big-box stores, most computer systems are running between $600 and $700 at a minimum, and some run well into the four-figure range. All of them include an extra couple of hundred bucks' worth of unnecessary proprietary software. Considering these realities, one begins to wonder what it would take to roll one's own hardware, just as one would compile a kernel. Recently, Don Marti asked me that very question, and at his request, I'm ...
Windows-to-Linux on the desktop has its drawbacks http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/1737226
Michael S. Mimoso writes "SAN DIEGO -- Organizing a conference around moving from Windows to Linux on the desktop may be easier than actually making the switch, at least that was the sentiment expressed by many panelists and attendees at the Desktop Linux Summit 2003."
Open-source audio wins MP3 player support http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/1731249
Open-source audio technology Ogg Vorbis will get its first official entrée into a commercial portable MP3 player next month.
Gates courts LDP leadership over 'e-Japan' deal http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/1715205
In an unprecedented attempt to encourage the Japanese government to adopt Windows for a planned electronic government project, Microsoft Corp. founder and Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday that he will reveal Microsoft's most tightly guarded secret -- the operating system's source code. The government would have to sign a confidentiality contract before receiving the information.
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