California offers plea deal to HP defendants
News Stephen Naratil, an attorney for data broker Bryan Wagner who is one of the defendants in the case, told the Associated Press that the plea agreement tendered by state prosecutors would allow all five defendants to avoid four felony charges...
[January 19, 2007, 7:50]
Scientists' plea for Bletchley Park
News The plea from the scientists is just the latest effort by the scientific and historical communities to try to ensure the long-term future of Bletchley Park. Scientists and researchers are pleading for the future of Bletchley Park, the home of the...
[July 24, 2008, 15:04]
Judge set to rule on Mitnick plea
News District Court Judge Marianne Pfaelzer is expected to rule on a plea agreement that Mitnick signed with federal prosecutors last week. If Pfaelzer OKs Mitnick's guilty plea to federal hacking charges he could be free by the end of the year -- only...
[March 26, 1999, 9:24]
Dmitry lawyers push for plea bargain
News Russian computer programmer Dmitry Sklyarov is due to be indicted on Thursday for circumventing the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA), but the prosecution and defence lawyers have revealed plans to negotiate a possible plea bargain.
[August 23, 2001, 12:45]
NetBSD makes cash plea
News Developers of the highly portable operating system have made a plea for users to donate "cold, hard cash" to the open source project. In an e-mail to NetBSD's community, spokesperson Thor Lancelot Simon said the money would be used to upgrade the...
[June 14, 2005, 15:35]
A Year Ago: Mitnick signs plea agreement
News Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, whose exploits put him on the FBI's most-wanted list until agents nabbed him four years ago, has signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, his attorney has confirmed.
[March 20, 2000, 6:26]
Microsoft makes source code plea to EC
Talkback Don't hold your breath waiting for compliance from M$. They will drag it out and delay as long as possible to keep competition away. All they want is for the world to use their product alone, regardless of its crappiness.
[January 26, 2006, 13:03]
OpenBSD founder makes funding plea
Talkback Opensource free distribution. Close the ftp mirror and develop paying distribution channels. Opensource projects have used the "free as in free beer" weapon to get exposure. At some point, the door has got to be closed.
[March 23, 2006, 11:09]
OpenBSD founder makes funding plea
Talkback "Opensource free distribution. Close the ftp mirror and develop paying distribution channels. You do realize that *anyone* is free to legally distrubute these products by any method, based on the currently available source?
[March 23, 2006, 12:18]
Microsoft makes last-ditch antitrust plea
Talkback M$ is still trying to avoid compliance by offering eye candy. How pathetic.
[March 23, 2006, 12:33]
OpenBSD founder makes funding plea
Talkback OpenBSD head de Raadt refuses to restrict code, so, fat chance of a future version being restricted.
[March 23, 2006, 17:27]
Microsoft makes last-ditch antitrust plea
Talkback How difficult to understand can this be? Microsoft gained and maintained a huge unfair advantage by business practices and monopoly abuse deemed illegal. So Microsoft must be punished and the equal level playing field must be restored.
[March 23, 2006, 21:36]
Microsoft makes last-ditch antitrust plea
Talkback Never in the history of ( IT) mankind has any company tried as hard as Microsoft to complie with this silly EU antitrust thing. I am so happy it is their last-ditch. However, I wonder why they do not simply release the documentiation asked for.
[March 24, 2006, 15:10]
Microsoft makes source code plea to EC
Talkback Well Microsoft is not used to compete. Thats why the share stock have fallen like a rock during the years. So sell all your stocks if you have any. If the monopol situation in the desktop area and so becomes solved for once.
[January 25, 2006, 20:21]
OpenBSD founder makes funding plea
Talkback One thing that I believe is missing from this article is a list of all companies that adopt the code from BSD, change it a little so other people can not interact with it, and then lock it up, so the can keep their monopolies or ability to...
[March 25, 2006, 17:28]
Microsoft makes source code plea to EC
Talkback It is the responsibility of the toothless governements to protect its citizens against life threatening companies. As we are dependent (through econmic and market engineering) on Microsoft Software it should be put by force into the public domain...
[January 26, 2006, 2:14]
Spammer looks to cut jail time with guilty plea
News A Detroit-area man is facing at least two years in jail on charges that he sent millions of spam messages over a number of high-profile company networks in violation of the Can-Spam Act. Daniel Lin, of West Bloomfield, along with three other men...
[January 13, 2006, 9:45]
Melissa virus suspect to enter plea
News Smith, the programmer who allegedly wrote and released the Melissa macro virus onto the Internet, will enter a plea in both US federal and state district courts on Thursday. According to law enforcement sources close to the case, Smith will enter a...
[December 9, 1999, 10:07]
Plea to bring British Broadband out of the Dark Ages
Blog Comment I think BT have accepted its their duty to move this forward - they are expected to introduce a fibre network this year in Kent - http://shopping-information.blogspot.com/2008/01/high-speed-broadband-take-broadband.html
[January 16, 2008, 9:09]



