Anger As Eric Raymond Drops Red Hat
News Replying to Raymond's message, Cox wrote: "Eric, I think you lost the plot. In his reply, Cox wrote: "The moment Fedora includes non-free stuff it becomes a problem for all the people who redistribute and respin it, and it becomes unfair in the...
[February 26, 2007, 9:13]
Linux Kernel Maintainer 'barred' From Patents Meeting
News In a Talkback to ZDNet UK's earlier story highlighting the issue, Cox wrote: "I too was mysteriously overlooked despite having written to my MP and received an answer. Alan Cox, sometime maintainer of the Linux kernel and well-known open-source...
[December 8, 2004, 15:25]
First IPhone Trojan In The Wild
News This is technically the first Trojan horse seen for the iPhone; however, it does appear to be more of a prank than an actual threat," Cox wrote in a blog post. The risk to users is minimal as they would have to choose to install the bogus package...
[January 8, 2008, 16:30]
Red Hat Spearheads Vulnerability Initiative
News We wrote up a proposal for NIST, and they thought it was a great idea," Cox added. Mark Cox, the security response team director for Red Hat, came up with the idea after a miscalculation which allows inappropriate access to memory in Apache was...
[September 7, 2006, 18:30]
Ballmer Cites 'facts' In Microsoft's Battle Against Linux
News Earlier this summer, Mark Cox of Red Hat security response team told ZDNet UK that his firm had worked closely with Forrester, and that these findings were flawed because the analyst group had just taken a simple average of the data.
[October 27, 2004, 17:20]
Perens Campaigns To Protect Open Source
News He is starting an important discussion," said Linux kernel developer Alan Cox, who points to similar discussions about vendor influence in the Linux Foundation . There are many potential community candidates, says Cox, who is not endorsing any...
[March 20, 2008, 13:53]
The Open Source Techie Who Means Business
News Cox wrote much of the original networking subsystem in Linux over a decade ago and has contributed code towards and maintained various kernel releases. Alan Cox is so well thought of in the open source community that he can pull together a crowd of...
[January 31, 2006, 15:45]
File-swappers Win Privacy Reprieve
News It is a pretty big setback," said Evan Cox, a copyright attorney with law firm Covington & Burling. We are not unsympathetic either to the RIAA's concern regarding the widespread infringement of its members' copyrights, or to the need for legal...
[December 22, 2003, 10:10]
Gartner To Dell Buyers: Watch Your Back
News Our perspective on it is that anything that does a service for new customers or helps customers in general to be smarter about their relationship with Dell is a plus," said Dell's Dwayne Cox. Dell's Cox recommended that customers review the report...
[April 9, 2002, 9:39]
Legal Technicality Puts Linux Programmers At Risk
News British Linux developer Alan Cox pointed out that the situation could be a legal nightmare for a whole range of Web based applications. But it's not clear if you are entering into a contractual relationship with the people who wrote the code or...
[November 11, 1999, 11:05]
Security Warning Too Quick For Comfort?
News One of the problems with ISS releasing their advisory early is that we were trying to find out how different platforms were affected," said Apache's Cox. There are many minds on how long to give a vendor to respond," Cox said.
[June 18, 2002, 9:21]
Linux On Itanium Passes Milestone
News Fellow Red Hat programmer Alan Cox took a more conciliatory tone. I hate to rain on your parade, but for a platform that has so many companies paying people full time to maintain under Linux, having it take this long is a big disappointment for me...
[August 5, 2003, 10:20]
