Felony charges for crackers in Michigan

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Attorney General Jennifer Granholm today announced that she has filed felony criminal charges against two Michigan men each accused of unlawfully entering a third-party computer system, the charges are the first under a Michigan law
which makes the unauthorized alteration, damage or use of a computer system a felony.

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Sun offers new licensing plan for Java 2

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

According to Computerworld, the new licensing policy calls for a per-year cap on royalties and fees that each licensee must pay Sun for access to the Java source code.

Linux gets wireless boost

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet UK News: Linux has seen a huge wireless boost according to research Thursday which shows a 50% growth in the number of wireless Linux applications being developed over the last 6 months.

OLD, I THINK. Tips for effective Open Source advocacy

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

32BitsOnline article offers strategies for convincing suits to adopt Linux in the enterprise.

Yggdrasil ships world’s first DVD9-ROM

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Yggdrasil Computing has shipped the world’s first Linux DVD9-ROM, a successor format to CD-ROM’s, with over twelve times the capacity, from Linux Weekly News.

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New Linux job site

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

A Linux-oriented job site, called MonsterLinux, has hit the net.

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WAP Forum moves toward Net standards

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

IDG News Service reports, the WAP Forum expects to approve Version 2.0 of WAP by mid-2001 and may complete specifications before that for such features as animation, streaming media, and downloading of music files, leaders of the group said at a press event Thursday.

FreeBSD installation and package tools, past, present and future

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

BSD Today discusses FreeBSD’s installation, configuration and package
management tools from the perspective of where they are and where they need to go.

DUPE – from yesterday Linux-Mandrake security update advisory

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Linux Today offer this upgrade to the mod_php3 package.

MontaVista receives investment from Intel

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

All Linux Devices reports, the agreement will help ensure that MontaVista’s software will take advantage of the architectural benefits of the Intel XScale microarchitecture and the Intel StrongARM and IA-32 processor families. More on the investments from Business Wire.