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Linux in the newsRecommended Reading IBM slammed over patent giveaway (Silicon.com)Silicon.com looks at the backlash to IBM's patent release announcement. "A spokesman for Germany's ruling Social Democratic (SPD) party, which spoke out against the [European software patent] directive in October, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK that IBM has put pressure on it both individually and through EICTA to support the directive. In particular, Fritz Teufel, the head of IBM's patent department in Germany, has been involved in pushing through the software patent directive, according to Mueller and the FFII..."
To Evil! of December 2004 (OSDir)Danny O'Brien's latest 'To Evil!' column is up on OSDir. "It's kind of intriguing, isn't it, when the MPAA and RIAA is to scaring us into believing that the world of unauthorized copying is filled of dodgy-dealers stuffing the files with all kinds of polluted malware and pop-ups, that they're also paying the people who do the stuffing?"
Trade Shows and Conferences 10 Questions for CES (Linux Journal)Doc Searls goes hunting for penguins at CES, on Linux Journal. "So, why am I at CES? One answer is there's no more Comdex. That leaves CES alone with the distinction of being the biggest technology show in the US. I believe CeBit in Europe still is bigger overall. Peter Hirshberg calls it "the world's silliest trade show", but that's only on the surface. It's still a great place to hunt down cool Linux stories that almost nobody else is talking about, mostly because they're too busy providing the same Big Vendor Sports coverage as the other thousand-plus reporters at the show."
The SCO Problem SCO Files Claim of Appeal in DC -- Claim Being Evaluated (Groklaw)Groklaw notes that SCO is attempting to appeal the dismissal of the DaimlerChrysler case - which it declined to proceed with. "Anybody can file the claim. That doesn't mean it's going anywhere. The court will take your claim notice and your $375 but then they evaluate your claim to see if you can appeal that way or if you must file an application and get permission to appeal."
Companies Mandrakesoft trail could lead to corporate Linux desktop (SearchEnterpriseLinux)SearchEnterpriseLinux covers the latest distribution releases from Mandrakesoft. "When Mandrakesoft released Corporate Server 3.0 and Corporate Desktop, it also released it with longer development cycles -- roughly 12 to 18 months in length which differed from its previous approach of shorter development cycles. The French firm also included a five-year maintenance plan to accompany the enterprise edition products, and designed them to be as easily configurable as possible. "These products have received specific development and testing efforts to make them as fit as possible for use in a business environment," said GaËl Duval, Mandrakesoft's co-founder.""
Legal Not-so-golden oldies (Economist)The Economist reports on the "problem" of copyright expiration in Europe. "Many people believe that America has gone too far in protecting copyright at the expense of the public good, including, it seems, the [European] commission, which said last year that it saw no need to lift its own 50-year limit. Its deadline for proposals on copyright law has slipped from this year to 2006. But governments are likely to weigh in on the issue. France, Italy and Portugal have indicated that they support an extension of the term, and Britain is likely to stick up for its own music major, EMI."
Interviews db4objects Interviews (NewsForge)NewsForge has an interview with the CEO and Chief Software Architect of db4objects. "While the traditional relational database market has largely resisted open source databases, the database world overall is a dynamic market full of change and opportunity. Berkeley DB and MySQL are notable open source successes in the embedded market and the market for database-backed Web sites. To that mix, db4objects hopes to become the newest success story, with its object database."
Novell, Mandrake respond to Sun's Red Hat claims (NewsForge)NewsForge talks to executives at Novell and Mandrakesoft about Red Hat's dominance in the Linux market. "When Sun's Scott McNealy told us that Red Hat had the Linux market, we decided it might be a good idea to find out what Novell and Mandrakesoft had to say about that. We exchanged email with Mandrakesoft CEO François Bancilhon and Novell's director of product management and marketing, Charlie Ungashick, on the subject of Solaris 10, Red Hat, and how they compete in a consolidating market."
Resources Keeping Your Life in Subversion (O'ReillyNet)In this O'ReillyNet article, Joey Hess talks about using Subversion for keeping track of more than just source code. "I keep my life in a Subversion repository. For the past five years, I've checked every file I've created and worked on, every email I've sent or received, and every config file I've tweaked into revision control. Five years ago, when I started doing this using CVS, people thought I was nuts to use revision control in this way. Today it's still not a common practice, but thanks to my earlier article "CVS homedir" (Linux Journal, issue 101), I know I'm not alone. In this article I will describe how my new home directory setup is working now that I've switched from CVS to Subversion."
Use Your Digital Camera with Linux (O'Reilly)Robert Bernier explains the use of digital cameras under Linux in an O'Reilly article. "This camera, like most, comes with a USB plug, so interfacing with a Linux box is easy. Camera applications are as about as common as snow (depending upon where you live, of course). However, for the most part they depend upon the libgphoto2 libraries."
Reviews Application of the Month: Akregator (KDE.News)KDE.News has announced a new Application of the Month article on the Akregator RSS reader. "As usual we have an interview with the author and a description of this nifty application which allows you to browse through thousands of internet feeds without the hassle of using a web browser."
Miscellaneous Donald Pederson, chip scientist, dies at 79 (NYTimes)The New York Times covers the death of Donald Pederson, a computer scientist who oversaw the creation of a widely used tool for the design of electronic circuits. "Designers of computer chips need to know how those chips will behave before they make them, but in the 1960s, the software available for simulating the behavior of integrated circuits was slow and unreliable. That changed in 1972, when Pederson's laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, created a fast and accurate program called Simulation Program with Integrated Circuits Emphasis, or Spice." (Thanks to horen)
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