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Patent holder antitrust immunity weighed

Author: JT Smith

USAToday.com reports that the U.S. Supreme Court signaled
interest in deciding whether antitrust law in some cases forces copyright and
patent owners to sell their products to rivals in other fields.

SubSeven DEFCON8 2.1 back door is spreading rapidly

Author: JT Smith

The Trojan has been distributed on Usenet newsgroups
with various file names, including
SexxxyMovie.mpeg.exe. According to the ISS research
team, X-Force, computer criminals are using infected systems to
test new distributed denial-of-service attack methods
and strategies. From TechWeb.com.

Category:

  • Linux

New G4 chip hits 1 GHz; Apple plans uncertain

Author: JT Smith

CNET.com reports that Motorola said Tuesday it would boost its G4 processor to 1 GHz and beyond, although it is unclear
when or if Apple Computer will adopt the faster chips.

Category:

  • Unix

RMS answers “Linux or GNU/Linux?”

Author: JT Smith

Software developers are contaminating free software by adding their bits of non-free code to it and re-packaging it. Richard Stallman explains why this is a very bad thing, at MaximumLinux.com.

Category:

  • Open Source

Hoax: Bill Gates arrested after breaking into NASA computers

Author: JT Smith

CNET.com reports that the Orange County Register’s website was vandalized, and an article stating that Jason Diekman had cracked NASA computers was changed, implying that world’s richest man Bill Gates was the culprit instead.

Category:

  • Linux

New licensing model for email server software eases requirements

Author: JT Smith

OpenOne corporation announced at LinuxPR.com that it had simplified its MailOne Linux-based licensing model

IBM Research sees computerized earrings in my future

Author: JT Smith

They say that quantum mechanics and atomic physics will come into play more often as the solution to getting all that technology packed into something as tiny as a single gold hoop. From Infoworld.com.

Category:

  • Linux

New tools allow users to install LinuxPPC on a Mac quicker

Author: JT Smith

LinuxPPC has licensed the Hard Disk Toolkit partitioning tool from FWB Software, which should allow Mac users to skip the disk erasing/partitioning step of Linux installation. From LinuxPR.

A security update to OpenSSH

Author: JT Smith

LWN.net is reporting a security risk with openssh’s SCP program.

Category:

  • Linux

New embedded toolkit for Linux released today

Author: JT Smith

LinuxPR talks about the deepLINUX embedded toolkit with Rick Collette, CTO and primary developer of the new product that promises to streamline application development.