Java fallout: OpenOffice.org 2.0 and the FOSS community By Bruce Byfield 2005.03.28 Source Several new features of the recently released OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta require a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Since Java's license is neither free nor open source, a small but vocal minority has responded both strongly and negatively. For instance, when NewsForge recently published a review of theby archive - Archive
South Korea Steps Up Linux Use in Public Sector Asia Pulse 03/28/05 8:18 AM PT Source Last year, the Ministry of Information and Communication in South Korea encouraged eight government agencies to adopt the Linux operating system and it is now gaining traction, the ministry said in a statement. South Korea said today it will launch a government-wide promotion to increase the free use of the Lby archive - Archive
Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend By TODD BENSON March 29, 2005 Source SÃO PAULO, Brazil, March 28 - Since taking office two years ago, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has turned Brazil into a tropical outpost of the free software movement. Looking to save millions of dollars in royalties and licensing fees, Mr. da Silva has instructed government ministries and state-runby archive - Archive
Buttonwood Measure for measure Mar 23rd 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Source Bond investors are becoming increasingly rattled by trifles. Does this imply a crisis, the “measured” return of rational pricing, or neither? BUTTONWOOD is not the only one who considers General Motors the slowest-moving car crash in history: the bonds of this former blue chip have been trading like junk forby archive - Archive
The Daily Reckoning London, England Thursday, March 24, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: For anyone living in the 20th century, the rising cost of living is nothing new. Since the creation of the Federal Reserve, the dollar has lost about 95% of its purchasing power. Chris Mayer explores our other options for making sound investments... THE DECAY OF PAPER CURRENCY by Chris Mayer Inflation,by archive - Archive
The Daily Reckoning London, England Thursday, March 24, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Millions of Americans have been viewing their humble abodes as their own, personal ATM. Marc Faber looks at this phenomenon and wonders when people will realize that they shouldn't have everything riding on their household assets... PUTTING YOUR ASSETS ON THE LINE by Dr. Marc Faber Let us assumeby archive - Archive
The Daily Reckoning London, England Tuesday, March 22, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: The new bankruptcy bill may deter some debtors from further "credit card kamikaze," but if property prices decline, the bill could leave millions of homeowners underwater on their mortgages. Rick Ackerman explores... BORROWERS SHOULD GO FOR BROKE by Rick Ackerman As indebtedness in its many inby archive - Archive
Rolling out next generation's net BBC News Saturday, 26 March, 2005 Source The body that oversees how the net works, grows and evolves says it has coped well with its growth in the last 10 years, but it is just the start. "In a sense, we have hardly started in reaching the whole population," the new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Brian Carpenter, says. Theby archive - Archive
A New Company to Focus on Artificial Intelligence By JOHN MARKOFF Published: March 24, 2005 Source SAN FRANCISCO, March 23 - The technologist and the marketing executive who co-founded Palm Computing in 1992 are starting a new company that plans to license software technologies based on a novel theory of how the mind works. Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky will remain involved with whatby archive - Archive
Banks eye bootable Linux CDs By Renai LeMay ZDNet Australia March 24, 2005 Source Australian company Cybersource says it's currently talking to two domestic banks about providing Linux-based bootable CDs to consumers to ensure Internet banking security. The company yesterday released information about its Online Banking Coastguard solution. Coastguard is based upon Knoppix, a Linux distrby archive - Archive
Microsoft criticised for IP address configeration patent Ingrid Marson ZDNet UK March 23, 2005, 16:20 GMT Source An organisation that campaigns for the reform of the patent system criticised Microsoft on Wednesday for filing a patent with a claimed similarity to the address auto-configeration mechanism of IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol. The Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) claimby archive - Archive
Startling Scientists, Plant Fixes Its Flawed Gene By NICHOLAS WADE March 23, 2005 Source In a startling discovery, geneticists at Purdue University say they have found plants that possess a corrected version of a defective gene inherited from both their parents, as if some handy backup copy with the right version had been made in the grandparents' generation or earlier. The finding implieby archive - Archive
NewsForge Why Novell's internal migration to Linux desktops is a landmark 2005.03.23 By Joe Barr Source SALT LAKE CITY -- There have been so many announcements, so much activity, such a hurried pace to the Brainshare 2005 conference that I think many may have overlooked the big story. It was thrown out in an almost offhand manner during Novell CEO Jack Messman's keynote address on Mby archive - Archive
Novell preps Linux Desktop 10 It plans to go head-to-head against Windows News Story by Cathleen Moore Source MARCH 23, 2005 (INFOWORLD) - Linux is ready for the corporate desktop, and the forthcoming version of Novell Inc.'s Linux Desktop offering will go head-to-head against Windows, Novell executives said this week at the company's annual BrainShare gathering in Salt Lake City.by archive - Archive
March 18, 2005 OP-ED COLUMNIST The Ugly American Bank By PAUL KRUGMAN Source You can say this about Paul Wolfowitz's qualifications to lead the World Bank: He has been closely associated with America's largest foreign aid and economic development project since the Marshall Plan. I'm talking, of course, about reconstruction in Iraq. Unfortunately, what happened there is likely tby archive - Archive
How to Battle the Coming Brain Drain Older workers are retiring in droves. How do you prevent their crucial knowledge from leaving with them? FORTUNE Monday, March 7, 2005 By Anne Fisher Source If you scan the reams of "best advice" in the preceding pages, you'll notice a pattern: Many of the key advice givers are older and wiser bosses. No surprise there. It's the managerby archive - Archive
Firefox explorers By Nigel McFarlane March 22, 2005 Source When Bill Robertson decided last year to switch 450 workers and 100 desktops at De Bortoli Wines to the open source Firefox web browser, he had the company's future in mind. In moving to the free Firefox, he did more than just install a web browser that rivals Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which comes for free with every PCby archive - Archive
The Age of Missing Information The Bush administration's campaign against openness. By Steven Aftergood Posted Thursday, March 17, 2005, at 4:23 AM PT Source The government does a remarkable job of counting the number of national security secrets it generates each year. Since President George W. Bush entered office, the pace of classification activity has increased by 75 percent, said Wiby archive - Archive
Guide: Microsoft European draft licence Ingrid Marson and Matt Loney, ZDNet UK March 21, 2005 Source In last year's European Commission antitrust ruling against Microsoft, the software giant agreed to create a server interoperability licence that would allow rival makers of server software to write applications that can "achieve full interoperability" with Windows client anby archive - Archive
Funding the Way to Open Access By Robert Terry Published: March 15, 2005 Source Imagine this scenario. You're the director of one of the world's largest medical research charities, and you receive notification from one of your funded investigators in Africa reporting some exciting progress toward the development of a vaccine for malaria. The work has just been published, so you log onby archive - Archive
What price for 'trusted PC security'? By Bill Thompson Last Updated: Friday, 18 March, 2005, 12:11 GMT Source You can now buy "trusted computers", but can we really trust the PC vendors, asks technology analyst Bill Thompson. If you have recently bought an IBM ThinkVantage computer, a Dell Optiplex, or one of a whole range of laptops from Toshiba, HP/Compaq or Samsuby archive - Archive
Contrabandwidth By Kate Palmer March/April 2005 Source People can get almost anything on the black market—drugs, passports, even human organs. Now add Web sites to the list. Inside many authoritarian regimes that closely monitor and censor the Internet, access to blocked Web sites has become a black market commodity like any other. Typically, the process is simple: Savvy black marketers in cybeby archive - Archive
An Interview with the OpenOffice.org Team. By Aditya Nag email(@)adityanag(.)org adityanag(@)gmail(.)com Date: March, 2005 Source This article was first published on :www.newsforge.com. UPDATE: The article was written by Bruce Byfield, but the Interview in the sidebar is mine. In fact, it's an extremely cut down interview, which is why I have posted the entire interview here.by archive - Archive
ATTORNEY-GENERAL CONFIRMS RULING FOR XS4ALL IN SCIENTOLOGY CASE XS4ALL News 18 March 2005 Source Today, Attorney-General Verkade delivered his opinion regarding the Scientology case to the Dutch Supreme Court. In this case the Church of Scientology accuses Karin Spaink of copyright infringement for making parts of their course material available on her website. By publishing this mateby archive - Archive
ADVOCAAT-GENERAAL BEVESTIGT GELIJK XS4ALL IN SCIENTOLOGY-ZAAK XS4ALL Nieuws 18 Maart 2005 Bron Vandaag heeft Advocaat-Generaal Verkade advies uitgebracht aan de Hoge Raad in de Scientology-zaak. In deze zaak beschuldigt Scientology Karin Spaink van auteursrechtinbreuk omdat de publiciste stukken uit de leer van Scientology op haar website heeft geplaatst. Spaink wil met het plaatsen van dezby archive - Archive
Barrels of Oil, Miles of Mud The Daily Reckoning London, England Tuesday, March 15, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Byron King discusses the stir caused by Edwin Drake, the man who drilled the world's first commercial oil well in a small in town in Pennsylvania. It's interesting to see what a look into history can tell us about the present-day oil frenzy... BARRELS OF OIL, MILESby archive - Archive
UPDATE 4-Fannie sees additional losses, stock tumbles Thu Mar 17, 2005 06:14 PM ET (Rewrites throughout) By Kristin Roberts Source WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - Fannie Mae (FNM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday said it would have to record $2.4 billion in additional losses for 2004 if the company's accounting for its mortgage commitments as derivatives is not allowed. The emby archive - Archive
EDS' secret love for Linux laid bare By Julian Bajkowski, Computerworld 18/03/2005 09:43:30 Source Only a day after flaming open source as insecure, unscalable and unfit for Australian consumption in its Agility Alliance, services vendor EDS has revealed it really does have a soft spot for the penguin deep in its heart. Contrary to the stern warnings on open source delivered by EDS globalby archive - Archive
"This is perhaps not the week to air such apocalyptic concerns, though they are much on Buttonwood’s mind. In the end, what foreign central bankers have it in their power to do is to reveal before all the world that the mighty American economic empire has no clothes—not even a pair of little fuchsia-coloured shoes." Buttonwood Starkers by Buttonwood Mar 16th 2005 From The Economistby archive - Archive
Secret US plans for Iraq's oil By Greg Palast Reporting for Newsnight Source The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil before the 9/11 attacks, sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC's Newsnight has revealed. Two years ago today - when President George Bush announced US, British and Allied forces would begin to bomb Baghdad - protesters clby archive - Archive