The Newspaper Shop -- Friday edition - P2P-Zone

walktalker · 18-05-01, 07:10 PM

Yup a newspaper always brings another

Group says MS is playing monopoly again
With a U.S. appeals court still reviewing a landmark antitrust ruling against Microsoft, the software giant's rivals on Thursday accused it of plotting a scheme to monopolize the Internet. Procomp, a group funded by Microsoft's competitors, charged Microsoft with planning to use its new Windows XP operating system and .Net strategy to extend its monopoly. The group said Microsoft plans to use its dominant Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser to force consumers to adopt its new .Net Internet platform.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...083124,00.html

Why Microsoft will never go with open-source
Lately, Microsoft has decided to deride and attack the open-source movement with strongly-worded rhetoric designed to create a panic in the technology marketplace. Many people have spent countless hours talking about why their arguments are incorrect and full of bunk. Fewer people have examined the facts of what lies beneath these arguments. The truth is this: Microsoft cannot and will not ever support the open-source or even the open standards movement.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/co...760032,00.html

Game makers aren't playing favorites
Major software publishers at this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo here are almost unanimously hedging their bets: They are creating games for multiple formats in hopes of establishing a foothold with whatever game console happens to become the market leader a year or two from now. And they're counting on the huge marketing budgets that the console makers will use to fight each other this fall to lure hordes of new customers, greatly expanding their potential customer base.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200...html?tag=mn_hd

Juno sued over subscriber limits
A customer has sued Juno Online Services, saying she was tricked into becoming a paid subscriber to the Internet service, which advertised its "free access." In the suit filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Ann Louise Truschel said the company began billing her $14.95 a month as an "excessive user" after she was online for about eight days. Truschel was then charged $1.95 a minute to call the company to find out why she couldn't access the Internet for free, the suit claims.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=mn_hd

Music anti-piracy group issues official shrug
The struggling Secure Digital Music Initiative took another big step backward Friday, breaking from its latest meeting with an admission that members can't yet agree on an industry standard for anti-piracy. The group, made up of record labels, technology and consumer electronics companies, has been working for two years to find a way to protect digital music from unauthorized copying as it is released on the Web.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=mn_hd

Pentagon under daily attacks from hackers
Unidentified hackers have been trying to break into Defense Department computer networks in a constant push to disrupt U.S. military forces, the Pentagon's chief information officer said Thursday. The Defense Department is "probed on a daily basis by those who are trying, or planning, to disrupt our nation's military capabilities," acting Assistant Secretary of Defense Linton Wells told a House Armed Services subcommittee.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=cd_pr

Anti-piracy highflier lands with a thud
Preview Systems, once a high-flying anti-piracy technology company, said Friday that it is selling its assets and closing its doors. One of several companies that had hoped to help secure software, music and other digital products against unauthorized copying, Preview Systems found itself overshadowed in the market by competitors including Microsoft and InterTrust.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Professor warns of threat to free speech
Edward Felten, the Princeton University professor who was muzzled from giving a speech about cracking digital watermarks, warned Thursday that if it happened to him, it could happen to you. Speaking in a packed Stanford University lecture hall, Felten said he thinks he will eventually win the rights to publish his work, which so far has been quashed by the entertainment industry.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Sky Watchers Saved by the Jail
Stargazers rejoice: The cradle of amateur astronomy is safe once again. Astronomers around the world were spooked when the state of Vermont announced plans to build a prison four miles from Stellafane, the Springfield, Vermont, observatory and star-watching clubhouse. The deliciously dark skies around Stellafane would be diluted by the prison's bright lights, astronomers feared, hindering telescopes' ability to peer into the night.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,43893,00.html

Peer to Peer to Getting Paid
Shawn Fanning brought file trading to the masses, but Napster hasn't yet proved to be good business, and these days, good business is what really counts. So who's doing what with all this peer technology?
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,43818,00.html

Bush Off by a Few Decades, Experts Say
These are not the 1970s. Try as President Bush might Thursday to portray America's energy troubles as a reprise of that decade's problems, there are striking differences. Where once the country suffered a sudden cutoff of oil--the result of the Arab oil embargo and the Iranian revolution--now it has plenty. Where once it was a sloppy hog for power, now it's a comparatively trim consumer. And where once it seemed utterly helpless to end its troubles, now it has a relatively simple, if painful, solution to most problems: higher prices.
http://www.latimes.com/business/cutt...s.topstory.htm

More stories later on

rebel_mom · 18-05-01, 07:11 PM

GREAT AS USUAL.

RDixon · 18-05-01, 07:22 PM

Nice work walk. Always nice to be forewarned of new developements in Billys Gotes bid for world domination.

chupacabra · 18-05-01, 07:26 PM

did someone say Billys Gotes????

Dawn · 18-05-01, 07:27 PM

LOL!!

RDixon · 18-05-01, 07:30 PM

Well, I meant to type Billy Gates but i think Gotes is much more descriptive so I'll leave it as it is. Have at em chupa.

VWguy · 18-05-01, 07:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by walktalker

Juno sued over subscriber limits
A customer has sued Juno Online Services, saying she was tricked into becoming a paid subscriber to the Internet service, which advertised its "free access." In the suit filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Ann Louise Truschel said the company began billing her $14.95 a month as an "excessive user" after she was online for about eight days. Truschel was then charged $1.95 a minute to call the company to find out why she couldn't access the Internet for free, the suit claims.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=mn_hd
More stories later on [/b]

She got off easy, after two months I was charged 30.00 for the "unlimited" service.

I left in a hury.

walktalker · 18-05-01, 07:48 PM

Parallels drawn between PC, biological viruses
Scientists studying how diseases spread believe there are many parallels between computer viruses and biological ones, enough so that when doctors want to know how AIDS engulfed a village in Africa, they may do well to look to their computers. Contrary to the idea that computer viruses immediately explode into a pandemic, the scientists found that the infection rate starts out very slowly among a small group of friends or a single company.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/t...us-biology.htm

Death of Web 'inevitable'
The World Wide Web's days are numbered, Forrester Research claims. The Internet may have taken off, mostly around the Web, but the next step of its evolution will see expansion beyond the browser, the company reckons. The Web's replacement is an executable Net with throwaway code downloaded as and when you want to use it as well as millions of every day devices connected to the Internet (the old more-Barbies-than-PCs linked to Net idea).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19042.html

Satellite radio is ready, but cars that can accommodate it aren’t
Satellite-radio technology was supposed to be delivering hundreds of channels of CD-quality music to as many as a million cars this year, revolutionizing radio the way cable did TV. It hasn’t worked out that way. Satellite-radio companies are finding it easier to launch satellites into space than to get their businesses off the ground.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/575111.asp

No recession for free software
My column Thursday, which used the collapse of open-source start-up Eazel as a launching point for exploring whether the current economic downturn could have a deleterious effect on the pace of free-software development, elicited numerous interesting responses. Just about everybody disagreed with me, from open-source luminaries to grass-roots hackers.
http://salon.com/tech/col/leon/2001/...ers/index.html

How to build a time machine
Mallett, a professor of theoretical physics at Connecticut University, believes he has found a route to the past that uses something much more down to earth: light. Mallett has worked out that a circulating beam of light, slowed to a snail's pace, just might be the vital ingredient for time travel. Not only is the technology within our grasp, Mallett has teamed up with other scientists at Connecticut to work towards building it. "With this device," he says, "time travel may become a practical possibility."
http://www.newscientist.com/newslett...jsp?id=ns22911

Mini-Napster nabbed for free Cantopop on the Net
A 14-year-old "computer wizard'' has been arrested for supplying free music - including hits by Cantopop kings - on the Internet. The alleged operator of the mini-Napster is the youngest copyright-infringement suspect arrested by Customs and Excise officers. The Secondary Two student was nabbed in a raid on his home in Mei Foo on Monday, in which computer equipment valued at $20,000 was also seized.
http://www.hk-imail.com/inews/public...225&intcatid=1

Student's Version Of 'Hot For Teacher' Gets An F
Rhode Island freshman suspended after recording graphic song about instructor, then uploading it to Napster. It all started with an inept cover of an Incubus song. After 14-year-old Derek Dubois' friends laughed at his solo acoustic version of "Pardon Me," he set out to convince them that he actually had some talent.
http://www.sonicnet.com/news/digital...443546&index=2

RealNetworks wants to deliver your streaming-media TV
If you want to watch an episode of the hit TV series "The Sopranos" at 2 a.m. on a weeknight, RealNetworks (RNWK) might be just the company to make it happen. RealNetworks has entered a pact with Sony (SNE) that could make streaming, on-demand video a part of everyday life for the first time.
http://www.upside.com/DigitalMedia/3b02f7ca1.html

Aimster must give up domain to AOL
The panel found that domain names such as aimster.com, a1mster.com, aimsertv.com and aimstertv.net violated the Internet provider’s trademarked "AIM" in a decision called American Online, Inc. v. John Deep. According to the NAF, which is the largest U.S.-based provider of domain name dispute resolution services and is one of the world’s largest neutral administration and mediation services, the dispute was one of hundreds heard each year. But this one, it said in a news release, "may have far-reaching consequences."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/575492.asp?0nm=C13M

Open-source browser aim: No Limits
A group of developers in Perth, Australia, calling themselves “The Four Horsemen” are working to ready a new open-source browser before the end of the year. The browser, which the group plans to release under the GNU General Public License, will be called No Limits.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/575306.asp?0nm=C15M

Musical smoke and mirrors
Don’t be fooled by the flurry of public relations-fueled stories this week about the so-called “legal Napster” — RealNetwork’s MusicNet. Now that Napster has been legally pummeled into a shell of its former self, it’s time for the industry spin doctors to seize the momentum and to tout new ways of delivering music online to us starved fans — not to mention anxious stockholders.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/574944.asp?0nm=T18M

US fraudster sent to jail after refusing to give up the Net
A San Diego man has landed himself a one-year jail sentence after refusing to give up the Net. Manuchehr Riazati collected more than $2,500 through selling computers and electronic items via online auctions. But he failed to deliver the goods after receiving the cash. Yesterday he was found guilty of two misdemeanour counts of petty theft and two counts of violating California's law regarding selling online, KGTV reports.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19066.html

NASA's Space Launch Initiative blasts off
NASA has awarded contracts for the development of a new generation of reusable space vehicles. The Space Launch Initiative (SLI) - which is aimed at improving safety and drastically reducing the cost of space operations - offers the possibility of a full-scale vehicle within five years. The initial contracts - totalling $767 million - were awarded to 22 companies. They are intended for development of alternative technologies which will lead on to development of a 'next-generation' vehicle.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/19061.html

Intel backs Linux everywhere
Intel has made its strongest commitment to developing Linux for the telecoms market to date, outlining what it sees as priorities for the development of the open source operating system. Howard Bubb, general manager of Intel's converged communications division, told delegates at Intel's Developers Forum in Amsterdam this week that developing Linux to become a robust operating system for telcos would be a key priority for the chip giant.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/19058.html

Microsoft co-opts Caldera, Torvalds in Shared Source offensive
We thought it was a slip of the tongue, but no - it's official! Microsoft today enshrined 'Shared Source' in pride of place on its website, and called on its lead punch-bag Craig Mundie to renew his assault on software libre. This time, Mundie used space offered by the CNet/ZDNet empire as a bully pulpit. There's little new to his latest diatribe, and Mundie's role seems to be falling into place: more of a Wheedler-in-Chief than Philosopher Prince.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19032.html

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The Boondocks strip of the day !

TankGirl · 18-05-01, 10:07 PM

Great stuff again, WT!

This article on MicroSoft was a good read:

Quote:

Why Microsoft will never go with open-source
Lately, Microsoft has decided to deride and attack the open-source movement with strongly-worded rhetoric designed to create a panic in the technology marketplace. Many people have spent countless hours talking about why their arguments are incorrect and full of bunk. Fewer people have examined the facts of what lies beneath these arguments. The truth is this: Microsoft cannot and will not ever support the open-source or even the open standards movement.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/co...760032,00.html

There is an interesting similarity between the MicroSoft vs. Open Source confrontation and the RIAA vs. P2P battle. Both Microsoft and the record industry base their businesses almost exclusively on selling shrink-wrap products and licenses. Both would find it very hard to switch their basic business models even if they wished because of the numerous existing licensing and royalty agreements. On the software side, open source movement is free from that sort of limitations and can effectively create a parallel world of possibilities over which the allmighty M$ has virtually no power but to bitch about it. On the media side, the entertainment industry giants are similarly powerless to stop the inevitable progress of p2p technology and the formation of parallel distribution channels. Both are facing the same basic challenge: to change from monopolistic shrink-wrap sellers to service-based businesses. It is a drastic change in a business model and in the related mindset. Just imagine the record industry instead of pushing aggressively their latest 'talents' to us asking us how we want to be served.

- tg

walktalker · 18-05-01, 10:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by TankGirl
Great stuff again, WT!
Just imagine the record industry instead of pushing aggressively their latest 'talents' to us asking us how we want to be served.

- tg

I might change everything indeed. They might be forced to see how different are the notion of what they want and of what we want.

RDixon · 18-05-01, 11:35 PM

But, Walk, " Billys Gotes" aka Bill gates will tell you what you want. That's just the way it is when he dominates the world.

18-05-01, 07:10 PM	#1
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	The Newspaper Shop -- Friday edition Yup a newspaper always brings another Group says MS is playing monopoly again With a U.S. appeals court still reviewing a landmark antitrust ruling against Microsoft, the software giant's rivals on Thursday accused it of plotting a scheme to monopolize the Internet. Procomp, a group funded by Microsoft's competitors, charged Microsoft with planning to use its new Windows XP operating system and .Net strategy to extend its monopoly. The group said Microsoft plans to use its dominant Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser to force consumers to adopt its new .Net Internet platform. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...083124,00.html Why Microsoft will never go with open-source Lately, Microsoft has decided to deride and attack the open-source movement with strongly-worded rhetoric designed to create a panic in the technology marketplace. Many people have spent countless hours talking about why their arguments are incorrect and full of bunk. Fewer people have examined the facts of what lies beneath these arguments. The truth is this: Microsoft cannot and will not ever support the open-source or even the open standards movement. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/co...760032,00.html Game makers aren't playing favorites Major software publishers at this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo here are almost unanimously hedging their bets: They are creating games for multiple formats in hopes of establishing a foothold with whatever game console happens to become the market leader a year or two from now. And they're counting on the huge marketing budgets that the console makers will use to fight each other this fall to lure hordes of new customers, greatly expanding their potential customer base. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200...html?tag=mn_hd Juno sued over subscriber limits A customer has sued Juno Online Services, saying she was tricked into becoming a paid subscriber to the Internet service, which advertised its "free access." In the suit filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Ann Louise Truschel said the company began billing her $14.95 a month as an "excessive user" after she was online for about eight days. Truschel was then charged $1.95 a minute to call the company to find out why she couldn't access the Internet for free, the suit claims. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=mn_hd Music anti-piracy group issues official shrug The struggling Secure Digital Music Initiative took another big step backward Friday, breaking from its latest meeting with an admission that members can't yet agree on an industry standard for anti-piracy. The group, made up of record labels, technology and consumer electronics companies, has been working for two years to find a way to protect digital music from unauthorized copying as it is released on the Web. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=mn_hd Pentagon under daily attacks from hackers Unidentified hackers have been trying to break into Defense Department computer networks in a constant push to disrupt U.S. military forces, the Pentagon's chief information officer said Thursday. The Defense Department is "probed on a daily basis by those who are trying, or planning, to disrupt our nation's military capabilities," acting Assistant Secretary of Defense Linton Wells told a House Armed Services subcommittee. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=cd_pr Anti-piracy highflier lands with a thud Preview Systems, once a high-flying anti-piracy technology company, said Friday that it is selling its assets and closing its doors. One of several companies that had hoped to help secure software, music and other digital products against unauthorized copying, Preview Systems found itself overshadowed in the market by competitors including Microsoft and InterTrust. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh Professor warns of threat to free speech Edward Felten, the Princeton University professor who was muzzled from giving a speech about cracking digital watermarks, warned Thursday that if it happened to him, it could happen to you. Speaking in a packed Stanford University lecture hall, Felten said he thinks he will eventually win the rights to publish his work, which so far has been quashed by the entertainment industry. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh Sky Watchers Saved by the Jail Stargazers rejoice: The cradle of amateur astronomy is safe once again. Astronomers around the world were spooked when the state of Vermont announced plans to build a prison four miles from Stellafane, the Springfield, Vermont, observatory and star-watching clubhouse. The deliciously dark skies around Stellafane would be diluted by the prison's bright lights, astronomers feared, hindering telescopes' ability to peer into the night. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,43893,00.html Peer to Peer to Getting Paid Shawn Fanning brought file trading to the masses, but Napster hasn't yet proved to be good business, and these days, good business is what really counts. So who's doing what with all this peer technology? http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,43818,00.html Bush Off by a Few Decades, Experts Say These are not the 1970s. Try as President Bush might Thursday to portray America's energy troubles as a reprise of that decade's problems, there are striking differences. Where once the country suffered a sudden cutoff of oil--the result of the Arab oil embargo and the Iranian revolution--now it has plenty. Where once it was a sloppy hog for power, now it's a comparatively trim consumer. And where once it seemed utterly helpless to end its troubles, now it has a relatively simple, if painful, solution to most problems: higher prices. http://www.latimes.com/business/cutt...s.topstory.htm More stories later on

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18-05-01, 07:11 PM	#2
rebel_mom who's line is it anyways? Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 2,656	GREAT AS USUAL.

18-05-01, 07:22 PM	#3
RDixon Registered User Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 3,742	Nice work walk. Always nice to be forewarned of new developements in Billys Gotes bid for world domination.

18-05-01, 07:30 PM	#6
RDixon Registered User Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 3,742	Well, I meant to type Billy Gates but i think Gotes is much more descriptive so I'll leave it as it is. Have at em chupa.

18-05-01, 07:48 PM	#8
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Parallels drawn between PC, biological viruses Scientists studying how diseases spread believe there are many parallels between computer viruses and biological ones, enough so that when doctors want to know how AIDS engulfed a village in Africa, they may do well to look to their computers. Contrary to the idea that computer viruses immediately explode into a pandemic, the scientists found that the infection rate starts out very slowly among a small group of friends or a single company. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/t...us-biology.htm Death of Web 'inevitable' The World Wide Web's days are numbered, Forrester Research claims. The Internet may have taken off, mostly around the Web, but the next step of its evolution will see expansion beyond the browser, the company reckons. The Web's replacement is an executable Net with throwaway code downloaded as and when you want to use it as well as millions of every day devices connected to the Internet (the old more-Barbies-than-PCs linked to Net idea). http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19042.html Satellite radio is ready, but cars that can accommodate it aren’t Satellite-radio technology was supposed to be delivering hundreds of channels of CD-quality music to as many as a million cars this year, revolutionizing radio the way cable did TV. It hasn’t worked out that way. Satellite-radio companies are finding it easier to launch satellites into space than to get their businesses off the ground. http://www.msnbc.com/news/575111.asp No recession for free software My column Thursday, which used the collapse of open-source start-up Eazel as a launching point for exploring whether the current economic downturn could have a deleterious effect on the pace of free-software development, elicited numerous interesting responses. Just about everybody disagreed with me, from open-source luminaries to grass-roots hackers. http://salon.com/tech/col/leon/2001/...ers/index.html How to build a time machine Mallett, a professor of theoretical physics at Connecticut University, believes he has found a route to the past that uses something much more down to earth: light. Mallett has worked out that a circulating beam of light, slowed to a snail's pace, just might be the vital ingredient for time travel. Not only is the technology within our grasp, Mallett has teamed up with other scientists at Connecticut to work towards building it. "With this device," he says, "time travel may become a practical possibility." http://www.newscientist.com/newslett...jsp?id=ns22911 Mini-Napster nabbed for free Cantopop on the Net A 14-year-old "computer wizard'' has been arrested for supplying free music - including hits by Cantopop kings - on the Internet. The alleged operator of the mini-Napster is the youngest copyright-infringement suspect arrested by Customs and Excise officers. The Secondary Two student was nabbed in a raid on his home in Mei Foo on Monday, in which computer equipment valued at $20,000 was also seized. http://www.hk-imail.com/inews/public...225&intcatid=1 Student's Version Of 'Hot For Teacher' Gets An F Rhode Island freshman suspended after recording graphic song about instructor, then uploading it to Napster. It all started with an inept cover of an Incubus song. After 14-year-old Derek Dubois' friends laughed at his solo acoustic version of "Pardon Me," he set out to convince them that he actually had some talent. http://www.sonicnet.com/news/digital...443546&index=2 RealNetworks wants to deliver your streaming-media TV If you want to watch an episode of the hit TV series "The Sopranos" at 2 a.m. on a weeknight, RealNetworks (RNWK) might be just the company to make it happen. RealNetworks has entered a pact with Sony (SNE) that could make streaming, on-demand video a part of everyday life for the first time. http://www.upside.com/DigitalMedia/3b02f7ca1.html Aimster must give up domain to AOL The panel found that domain names such as aimster.com, a1mster.com, aimsertv.com and aimstertv.net violated the Internet provider’s trademarked "AIM" in a decision called American Online, Inc. v. John Deep. According to the NAF, which is the largest U.S.-based provider of domain name dispute resolution services and is one of the world’s largest neutral administration and mediation services, the dispute was one of hundreds heard each year. But this one, it said in a news release, "may have far-reaching consequences." http://www.msnbc.com/news/575492.asp?0nm=C13M Open-source browser aim: No Limits A group of developers in Perth, Australia, calling themselves “The Four Horsemen” are working to ready a new open-source browser before the end of the year. The browser, which the group plans to release under the GNU General Public License, will be called No Limits. http://www.msnbc.com/news/575306.asp?0nm=C15M Musical smoke and mirrors Don’t be fooled by the flurry of public relations-fueled stories this week about the so-called “legal Napster” — RealNetwork’s MusicNet. Now that Napster has been legally pummeled into a shell of its former self, it’s time for the industry spin doctors to seize the momentum and to tout new ways of delivering music online to us starved fans — not to mention anxious stockholders. http://www.msnbc.com/news/574944.asp?0nm=T18M US fraudster sent to jail after refusing to give up the Net A San Diego man has landed himself a one-year jail sentence after refusing to give up the Net. Manuchehr Riazati collected more than $2,500 through selling computers and electronic items via online auctions. But he failed to deliver the goods after receiving the cash. Yesterday he was found guilty of two misdemeanour counts of petty theft and two counts of violating California's law regarding selling online, KGTV reports. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19066.html NASA's Space Launch Initiative blasts off NASA has awarded contracts for the development of a new generation of reusable space vehicles. The Space Launch Initiative (SLI) - which is aimed at improving safety and drastically reducing the cost of space operations - offers the possibility of a full-scale vehicle within five years. The initial contracts - totalling $767 million - were awarded to 22 companies. They are intended for development of alternative technologies which will lead on to development of a 'next-generation' vehicle. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/19061.html Intel backs Linux everywhere Intel has made its strongest commitment to developing Linux for the telecoms market to date, outlining what it sees as priorities for the development of the open source operating system. Howard Bubb, general manager of Intel's converged communications division, told delegates at Intel's Developers Forum in Amsterdam this week that developing Linux to become a robust operating system for telcos would be a key priority for the chip giant. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/19058.html Microsoft co-opts Caldera, Torvalds in Shared Source offensive We thought it was a slip of the tongue, but no - it's official! Microsoft today enshrined 'Shared Source' in pride of place on its website, and called on its lead punch-bag Craig Mundie to renew his assault on software libre. This time, Mundie used space offered by the CNet/ZDNet empire as a bully pulpit. There's little new to his latest diatribe, and Mundie's role seems to be falling into place: more of a Wheedler-in-Chief than Philosopher Prince. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19032.html The Garfield comic strip of the day ! The Dilbert strip of the day ! The Boondocks strip of the day !

18-05-01, 11:35 PM	#11
RDixon Registered User Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 3,742	But, Walk, " Billys Gotes" aka Bill gates will tell you what you want. That's just the way it is when he dominates the world.