Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 04:47 AM EDT |
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Authored by: maroberts on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 05:53 AM EDT |
I know we want the naked truth, but isn't this going a bit far? :-) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: complex_number on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 08:15 AM EDT |
developers.slashdot.org
The link is
referring to a change made in the MySql documentation license. It is no longer
GPL'd. I guess that Oracle will soon start locking it away and charging for
access to it.
If there was ever a more compelling reason to ditch MySQL and
move to Postgres of MariaDB then I don't know of one.
At least the OLD
versions are still GPL'd and there is not a lot that Oracle can do about
it.
some Questions that spring to mind:-
1) will Oracle start charging
distro's for having it in their repositories?
2) Will Oracle start law suits
against the various Authors who are/have written books about MySQL? (copyright
Violation)
I did question the reasons for RH to drop MySQL from RHEL-7 but
now I am right behind them.
--- Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer
to Life, The Universe & Everything which is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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Authored by: complex_number on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 10:34 AM EDT |
Well Doh!
How many walking sticks are there available that have a Camera mount (aka Tripod
camera mount thread) already included in the device.
I have one such device and most of the time it has a small Nikon camera mounted
on it.
Well done USPTO for allowing the patenting of something that already exists.
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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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Authored by: squib on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 11:42 AM EDT |
Microsoft partners with Samsung, HP
Microsoft partners with Samsung, HP to help
stop Windows piracy in China
Hewlett-Packard and Samsung
Electronics will now ensure that their PCs in China are installed with licensed
Windows and Office software as part of new agreements signed with Microsoft
meant to fight piracy.
Microsoft announced the agreements Wednesday as the
company brought its latest anti-piracy campaign to the Chinese city of Nanjing.
Since December, Microsoft's "Keep it Real" campaign has been educating the
Chinese public on security risks of using unlicensed Windows
software.
What about those people that want to avoid the risk of
using 'properly' licensed M$ software buy running Linux instead? The
consumer should be able to choose the risk he wants to take without paying the
M$ tax don't you think? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 02:09 PM EDT |
David Boies on the
Six ways he thinks
the Supreme Court can rule on Same-Sex Marriage
Interesting
evaluation of the options.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 05:04 PM EDT |
"A top Monsanto executive has won the prestigious World
Food Prize .. Robert
T. Fraley, the executive vice president
and CTO of Monsanto, won the prize ..
World Food Prize is
considered to be the Nobel Prize for food and agriculture
the award was started by Norman E. Borlaug in 1987. Borlaug
won the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1970 for the Green Revolution
and he believed there should be an
equivalent prize for food
and agriculture." link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 05:19 PM EDT |
linky
A plus factor in the negotiations was the
possibility of Microsoft using offshore cash to fund a deal. The company has
about $66 billion of cash held in offshore subsidiaries—a stockpile that
would be tough to bring back to the U.S. without incurring a large tax
bill.
The two sides held their discussions in London and were close to
an oral agreement about a combination, one of the people said. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: squib on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 05:30 PM EDT |
As this is something I have been asked on numerous occasions I thought it would
be useful to post John McAfee personal advice.
Boing Boing (from which I
sourced this) suggests it NSFW but in my view it isn't any less safe than the
lunch box my wife packs for me – err... has any one got any Alka-Seltzer?
How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus by John McAfee himself [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 06:01 PM EDT |
Now, that we own our genes then research can go forward with various creative
solutions to health problems (without the fear of infringement on that type of
biological patent).
Here is an example of such a direction (where folks that
are trying it are having some success).
Interview with Dr Thomas Seyfried
(25 years at Yale and Boston College, results of years of research with team of
over 20, etc) see:
Video Interview on YouTube embeded in article
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/06/16/ketogenic-die
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 08:50 PM EDT |
`The US is weighing whether to prosecute foreign officials
for the cyber theft
of American commercial and government
information in an effort to raise the
potential cost of such
attacks'. link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 09:18 PM EDT |
Startup's Debian-based Linux
distribution for commodity switching hardware aims to upend networking's status
quo --- The following program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, June 19 2013 @ 10:08 PM EDT |
Google's David Drummond answers your
questions about the NSA, internet security, privacy and the limits of
law
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Authored by: pgmer6809 on Thursday, June 20 2013 @ 02:33 AM EDT |
There is a thread on slashdot discussing PDP-11's once the DEC flagship
computer.
here.
In that thread there is this
comment by Anonymous (NOT by me!):
> Microsoft hired him to
lead a team that designed Windows NT.
>> Wow. Way to re-write
history. No, I'm afraid that's not how it went down.
Dave Cutler developed what
ultimately is NT while working for Digital
Equipment Corporation. DEC wasn't
interested in Dave's creation. Dave
unethically and possibly illegally shopped
it around. Microsoft was
interested. Dave and his entire engineering team left
DEC, and went to
work for Microsoft, and actually, literally stole DEC's
intellectual
property and eventually released it as Windows NT. Yes, I am saying
that
Windows NT is the intellectual property of Digital Equipment
Corporation,
and Microsoft never paid DEC a red nickel for it.
On a
personal note, I am divided about Mr. Cutler. Windows NT might have
been the
best Windows ever, and NT itself isn't a terrible platform. What
Microsoft did
to it is >>unfortunate for users and administrators
everywhere, but it
essence, NT wasn't terrible. Cutler is an impressive
developer... quite
amazing... yet it sickens me that what he
and Microsoft did was insanely
unethical, and no one noticed. Microsoft's
main flagship product was STOLEN,
and no one noticed, and this is hardly ever acknowledged.
I have no idea if this is accurate or not. I remember it as
Microsoft hiring
Cutler to rescue NT development when DEC refused to develop a
32 bit real
time OS, and Cutler got fed up.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
( a famous french epigramist) once wrote that,
"behind every great fortune there
is a crime."
If the above is true then behind Microsoft's fortune, there are at
least 3
crimes.
Is there any way of ascertaining the truth of the
above?
Regards,
pgmer6809
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