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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Who can look at the footage of angry anti-American protests in Palestine and Pakistan and imagine for a second that this new "war" will achieve through military action Bush's stated aim of removing the evil of terrorism from the world?
[September 17, 2001, 14:39]
Microsoft's open source arguments are arrogant, says IBM
News In recent weeks, Microsoft executives have launched an all-out propaganda war against open source software, based on the GNU Public Licence (GPL). Microsoft's comments have branded this way of working anti-American and destructive to intellectual...
[July 5, 2001, 12:37]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback Most of us hate war, hate Bush and can't wait till he's gone. Another thing, anti-American, Anti-Indian or anti whatever else rants have no place on this board. My solution to calling tech support? Know what the hell you're talking about before you...
[September 8, 2006, 8:26]
Conway to get $16m from PeopleSoft
News That would leave the Delaware Chancery Court -- where Oracle is fighting to remove PeopleSoft anti-takeover measures like its "poison pill" and to temper its customer assurance program -- as one of the last battlegrounds in the protracted proxy war.
[October 19, 2004, 17:10]
PCs take more sick days than their users
News Communications minister Stephen Timms said international collaboration is needed to win the war against spam. The government has been waving the anti-spam flag for some time, but insists it cannot do anything about the problem alone.
[June 23, 2004, 17:10]
SpamNet signs up surfers to fight junk email
News Conceived by Napster co-founder Jordan Ritter and open-source developer Vipul Ved Prakash, the company is touting the benefits of democracy, networking and collaboration in the war against unscrupulous email marketers.
[June 19, 2002, 14:09]
Fight spam with zero tolerance
Leader This unrelenting conviction is noticeably absent from any aspect of the war on spammers. But what about those companies which profit from selling anti-spam and anti-malware software -- do they really crave the eradication of junk-email?
[March 1, 2005, 12:50]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback Just because someone is American doesn't mean they are war-mongering scum. Oh, and to Ken and all the other anti-American morons, I'm American and smart enough to only call tech support for legitimate issues (none so far).
[October 11, 2006, 4:13]
Guerilla tactics will defeat music industry
News Gagging Napster may be the easiest task the RIAA has to face in the war to secure royalties for musicians. Finding other, more secretive operations is where the real challenge lies, and, according to many, it's a war the music industry cannot win.
[July 27, 2000, 12:40]
Sendmail trials Sender ID
News Sendmail's Sender ID milter is a major weapon in the war on spam," said Meng Wong in a statement. Sendmail on Monday released the first implementation of a mail filter that uses Sender ID, an anti-spam technology currently being considered by the...
[September 1, 2004, 13:40]
OSDL considers open-source code repository
News Cohen said OSDL is not against software patents and is not concerned about the risk of patent war -- the possibility that patent lawsuits could escalate, and drive SMEs and open-source projects out of existence.
[October 27, 2004, 14:40]
Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
Talkback In the piece entitled "Experts: Vicious worm 'Linux war' weapon" here is a quote: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/27/mydoom.spread/index.html) Its like sying the French army can fight, just because they strut about and look fierce in...
[January 27, 2004, 23:34]
Is Sun subverting Linux from the inside?
News Butler, meanwhile, believes that, although Sun is keen not to be viewed as waging war with the wider open source community, it is, nonetheless, trying to drive a wedge between it and the Linux world. So to try and mitigate the effect of these...
[February 1, 2005, 9:25]
The software patent war isn't over
Leader The battle across Europe may have turned into nation-by-nation skirmishes, but the war still needs to be fought. In the end, big business realised that if passed, the directive would have been so compromised by the anti-patent groups that it ran...
[July 8, 2005, 17:00]
Limiting encryption may open doors to criminals
News A new call for limits on encryption technology is finding weak political support in the United States, despite a looming clandestine war against terrorism that is likely to hinge on the effectiveness of police and military intelligence.
[September 27, 2001, 10:26]
Arab news site suffers outages
News A representative of network performance measurement service Matrix NetSystems said that in general the company hasn't seen signs of serious hacking since the start of the war. Online vandals have defaced a greater number of Web sites following the...
[March 26, 2003, 8:16]
Copyright foes trade verbal blows
News Such examples, he said, are evidence that "there is a war on against consumers. I think we have had a very wide set of anti-technology rules emerging from the courts," she said. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, would require government-mandated anti...
[August 2, 2002, 11:22]
Campaigners celebrate patent directive defeat
News It is however just the opening battle in a war," he said. He said it has been difficult for anti-patent campaigners to have as much impact as the pro-patent lobby, as they are volunteers who cannot afford to lobby full time.
[July 7, 2005, 16:45]
Microsoft feuds with rivals over Vista security
News Tensions are flying high in the security space after Microsoft, with its $34bn war chest, entered the market. For example, both companies doubt it is a coincidence that the company added an anti-spyware category to the Windows Security Center only...
[September 20, 2006, 9:00]
Sunbelt: Small antivirus companies are overwhelmed
News A small platoon won't win this war. Small antivirus and anti-spyware companies are being overwhelmed by the amount of malware being produced, according to security researcher Alex Eckelberry. They're out there: little companies with small teams...
[January 25, 2008, 16:35]
