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Linux Journal Live - eBook Readers and DRM
November 14th, 2008 by Shawn Powers in
The November 13, 2008 edition of Linux Journal Live! Shawn Powers and special guest, Linux Journal Author Daniel Bartholomew, talk e-book readers and Daniel's Kindle, DRM, and other goodness.
Run Your Windows Partition Without Rebooting
November 13th, 2008 by Elliot Isaacson in
Dual booting is a necessary evil and very inconvenient. What if you could run your windows partition in a virtual machine, so you wouldn't have to worry about rebooting anymore? With VMWare Workstation, you can.
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December 2008, #176
The Oxford English Dictionary says the word "gadget" is a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember. Like that book-reader thingy from Amazon...what's it called? Spindle, Gindle...Kindle, that's it. Check it out in this month's gadget issue.
Other gadgets covered include the Nokia tablets, the BlackBerry, the Neo FreeRunner, the Dash Express, the Roku Netflix Player, the Kangaroo TV, The TomTom GO 930 and the MooBella Ice Cream System. On the larger hardware front, read the reviews of the Acer Aspire One and the YDL PowerStation. On the software front, check out the articles and columns on memcached, Samba security, Mutt, desktop gadgets, bash and Puppet. To wrap it all up, read Doc's thoughts on Google and the browser platform.
I'm not so sure
On July 25th, 2008 Glyn Moody says:
You write: "If a company that distributes proprietary software claims that code used in an open source project is infringing on their IP, the onus lies on them to prove this violation by showing what code is being violated."
Well, that didn't happen with SCO, which has made accusations against Linux for years without ever being forced to prove the violations. But the FUD it generated harmed open source considerably - initially, at least.
As for the view that this is conspiracy theory, I wish it were (and hope it still might be). But when you look at what the intellectual monopoly industries have *already* done in terms of lengthening copyright terms and imposing the DMCA on countries around the world, it's hard not to be pessimistic.