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FSF Disputes Anti-GPLv3 Arguments
News The Free Software Foundation is seeking to counter recent claims of prominent Linux programmers who have argued vehemently against new features in an update of the widely used General Public License (GPL).
[September 27, 2006, 9:40]
Sharman Case Back In Court
News Lawyers representing record labels and those acting for peer-to-peer companies argued on Friday in the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney about whether a controversial order used by the music industry to obtain information on file-sharing...
[February 20, 2004, 14:25]
Internet Attaches £5.5bn Price Tag To English
News The Internet revolution has increased the value of the English language to £5.5bn economists argued on Friday, now that it is the leading language of the Internet. The new technology has caused the biggest revolution in human communication English...
[March 27, 2001, 7:02]
Microsoft Likely To Avoid Split
News During a second day of hearings into Microsoft's appeal of a breakup order issued last year, Microsoft attorney Richard Urowsky argued that US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson showed a bias against the company in comments made to reporters...
[February 28, 2001, 7:28]
Study: Open, Closed Source Equally Secure
News Proprietary programs should mathematically be as secure as those developed under the open-source model, a Cambridge University researcher argued in a paper presented Thursday at a technical conference in Toulouse, France.
[June 21, 2002, 8:57]
National Curriculum Switching Girls Off IT
News The National Curriculum is preventing girls from succeeding in IT, education experts argued at a conference organised by the government on Wednesday. Teachers in computing argued that a change in curriculum is needed to alter the negative...
[January 17, 2002, 10:31]
Oracle: UK Plc 'needs Grid To Compete'
News Grid computing will be the single most important factor keeping companies competitive against increasingly advanced competition from emerging economies, Oracle executives argued at the launch of the UK Oracle User Group's annual conference in...
[December 8, 2003, 14:40]
PeopleSoft: Oracle's Bid Is 'inadequate'
News The board also argued against any such deal, saying it would likely be rejected by antitrust regulators. Critics have argued that the programme lowers PeopleSoft's value. PeopleSoft's board of directors has rejected Oracle's lowered bid to take...
[May 27, 2004, 9:25]
MS, DOJ Sharply Clash In New Filings
News On Tuesday lawyers for both sides submitted proposed findings of facts in connection with the Microsoft antitrust trial that closely traced themes outlined during the 76 days they argued in court during the earlier phase of the case.
[August 11, 1999, 9:09]
Mandrake Defends User Club
News The membership drive has drawn criticism over the past month from those who argued it was not an appropriate tool for a profit-making company. Relying entirely on boxed software tends to go against the grain of Free Software, he argued: "A Linux...
[April 5, 2002, 15:32]
Firefox Developer Rebukes Google
News In a blog posting this week, Blake Ross argued that Google was wrong to include plugs for its Calendar, Blogger and Picasa at the top of search results for terms like 'calendar', 'blogging' or 'photo sharing'.
[December 29, 2006, 12:20]
'Your Borders Are Porous', IT Pros Told
News On the other side of the debate, Mark Waghorne, principal adviser for KPMG, argued that in fact there was no such thing as deperimeterisation, and that instead organisations should redefine their boundaries.
[April 27, 2006, 16:50]
Authors May Challenge Amazon Full-text Search
News In an email alert to members, sent on Friday, the Guild argued the tool could eat into sales of certain types of books, including cookbooks and reference texts, and advised that some authors might do well to have their books removed from the service.
[October 27, 2003, 11:40]
MS To Antitrust Judge: Give Us More Time
News In Friday's 19-page legal filing, Microsoft argued that the original schedule put forth by Kollar-Kotelly no longer made sense because of "the non-settling states' dramatic expansion of the scope of the litigation beyond what the Court reasonably...
[December 24, 2001, 9:27]
IT Industry: Data Retention Mess Needs Fixing
News Speaking at the Storage Expo conference on Wednesday, Eurim boss, Philip Virgo argued that there were some 17 different legal requirements in UK law alone over data retention. What is needed, Virgo argued, was for users and businesses to work with...
[October 20, 2006, 12:50]
NASA Hacker To Hear Fate Next Month
News His defence has argued that he should not be extradited as he could be tried under America's tough anti-terrorism laws. However, the defence argued that the note was not binding as it was unsigned. Stafford-Smith argued that the note would not...
[April 12, 2006, 18:05]
Moore's Law Is The Enemy Of Privacy
News Schneier, founder and chief technology offier of Counterpane Internet Security, argued that the biggest threat to privacy was the sheer ease with which information can be gathered to such an extent that data was now "a pollutant".
[September 29, 2006, 17:40]
Open Standards 'are The Mobile Future'
News Intellisync also argued that moving to open standards would have direct financial benefits for users: "Software has to work with all carriers. But Mike Short, vice-president of research and development at O2, argued that some users like this...
[January 25, 2006, 11:25]
Skill Mix Is 'key To IT Hiring'
News Communication skills that fit in with the skillsets of other team members was the criteria one respondent argued are key. They must fit into the team well to ensure that we can perform," the respondent argued.
[April 8, 2003, 15:59]
Security Industry Doesn't Want A Cybersecurity Tsar
News But experts argued on Tuesday that there are already enough government agencies addressing this issue. However, it was criticised as toothless in April this year by Lord Harris of Haringey, who argued that it needs to be able to force government...
[November 29, 2005, 17:25]
