eBusiness Journal: The Quiet (Open Source) Revolution

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September 9, 2000

Author: JT Smith

An eBusiness story says,
“It’s critical to build trust between you and the person you’re talking to. There’s power in first-hand stories,” said Pavlicek, who has spent the last five years informing others about using open source technologies.”
-Anonymous Reader

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Migration

Building Nautilus: Behind The Scenes

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September 9, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Slashdot has a dicussion (plus a link to Linuxplanet with the original piece) detailing the design of the Nautilus, and some of the issues of making a distribution-neutral program.

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Linux

IT Week: Shake up for crypto market

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September 9, 2000

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet.uk article about potential market effects of RSA encyption scheme becoming public domain.

Category:

Linux

Teaching kids Internet safety with animated characters

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September 9, 2000

Author: JT Smith

The Three CyberPigs, the Idea Seekers gang, and other cartoons will soon help teach children to avoid bad things on the Internet. (Not NewsForge, we hope!) Story at MSNBC. A visit to Disney’s Surf Swell Island (sponsored in part by NetNanny) may also help keep tykes safe from online dangers.

Sun joins MPEG-4 industry forum

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September 9, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Press release from Sun Microsystems about its participation in an industry forum that “will enable Sun to
help accelerate the promotion and adoption of the MPEG-4 standard, which is
designed to handle the transportation, synchronization, coding and rendering
of audiovisual multimedia content for Internet and wireless applications.”

Napster responds to US Government

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September 9, 2000

Author: JT Smith

PR News Wire is carrying Napster’s response to the US Government’s backing of the RIAA position in their ongoing lawsuit.

ICANN nominations draw to a close

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September 9, 2000

Author: JT Smith

ICANN’s experiment in global democracy is drawing to a close, says a story at TechWeb.

Category:

Linux

Shuttle off on latest mission

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September 9, 2000

Author: JT Smith

The latest shuttle mission is up, and it marks the beginning of an ambitious marathon run to the space station over several missions.

Category:

Linux

Intel to subsidise RamBus for Pentium IV

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September 9, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Intel is subsidising RamBus technology for Pentium 4 equipped computers, potentially reducing the price by $100.

Category:

Unix

Steve Ballmer thinks Microsoft is wonderful after 25 years

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September 9, 2000

Author: JT Smith

In a ZDNet interview, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks about how great Microsoft has been during its first 25 years, and why the company will be even more wonderful during the next 25.