Bruce Perens told SYS-CON-TV, “Any significant open source program is
infringing on tens or hundreds of software patents. These are things that
should have never been granted. No one ever voted for them. They were the
result of a court decision. And, we have to fix the law.”
The full interview can be found at sys-con.tv
Is the party over for Microsoft’s .NET language C#? Calvin Austin,
writing for Java Developer’s Journal, says it is, essentially.
Google loses its Geico gambit. A U.S. district court has ruled against Google
in a trademark suit over the sale of the terms Geico and Geico Direct in
Google's AdWords service.
IBM has validated SOA Software's XML VPN product as WS-Trust "Ready for IBM
Tivoli \Software."
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Symantec has identified six different strains of the Zotob virus, which has
been propogating rapidly throughout the media world.
BEA Systems has announced what it calls significant milestones in the
company’s open-source efforts, including code release milestones for
Apache Beehive, Apache XMLBeans and the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP).
Whizlabs Software has launched the Sun Certified Developer for Java 2
Platform (SCJP) 5.0 Certification Exam Simulator.
John Dvorak told SYS-CON.TV that he believes the future of open source is
very bright.
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Apple has re-released a security patch for its new 64-bit Tiger OS Ten that
addresses more than 40 previously identified potential security problems.
More than 90 Australian companies have reportedly received letters demanding
payment of standard sub-licensing fees for the use of the Linux trademark
in Australia.
IBM has announced that it will support the Geronimo J2EE application server
Symbian said shipments of its smartphone software nearly tripled in the
second quarter of 2005.
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Sun Microsystems has announced its Open Media Commons initiative.
Parasoft says that its WebKing 5 can now automatically perform "hacker like"
attack scenarios.
LinuxIT has developed a new strategic partnership with Arkeia Corporation to
deliver backup and data recovery solutions.
Adobe has added four new royalty-free image collections available through
Adobe Stock Photos.
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JBoss is hosting a portlet contest for developers to share JSR-168 compliant
portlets.
IBM has finalized an agreement to acquire DWL.
Linux provides a lower overall TCO compared to Windows or Solaris for J2EE
application server environments.
Java developer Yakov Fain will host a live internet TV broadcast on
sys-con.tv on Friday, September 2.
EclipseWorld 2005 was held August 29-31, 2005 in New York.
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