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Cost-Conscious Companies Turn to Open-Source Software
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| As the recession puts pressure on tech spending, many companies are turning
| to open-source software to handle more IT tasks
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2008/tc20081130_069698.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_news+%2B+analysis
Open-Source Software
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| A good place to start is SourceForge.net, a Web site where nearly any
| open-source software might be found and downloaded. While open-source
| software is free to download, there are usually costs associated with
| maintaining it and training employees how to use it. Companies can purchase
| those services in annual subscription fees from commercial open-source
| vendors.
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2008/tc20081130_069698.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_news+%2B+analysis
The Wintel press seems to have realised that readers are not interested in
Wintel. The /sponsors/ of Wintel press are interested in Wintel.
Recent:
Good-Bye PC Magazine
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| Today, almost all of my work appears online first. I’m fine with that. Still,
| I got my start with now long gone print publications like Byte and
| PC/Computing. Seeing PC Magazine, the most popular of all the print PC
| publications leave is like seeing an old friend moving to another country. I
| know he’ll still be alive out there online, but it just isn’t going to be the
| same.
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http://practical-tech.com/business/good-bye-pc-magazine/
Related:
Ziff Davis files for bankruptcy protection
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| Print and Web publisher Ziff Davis Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
| protection on Wednesday, citing declining advertising revenue and
| subscriptions as contributing factors, according an Associated Press report
| Wednesday.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9887337-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Breaking: Wikileaks Missing
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| Breaking News has just learned that Wikileaks — the website utilized to post
| materials obtained from Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin's
| personal Yahoo mail account — is, for undisclosed reasons, no longer
| available online. The extent of the outage is not currently known, thought it
| appears all mirrors of the site are offline, including domains for the United
| Kingdom, Belgium, and Christmas Island.
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| We have been unable to identify the source of the outage, though the internet
| is alive with rumors. Paramount among them is the obvious and expected
| suggestion that U.S. law enforcement — who are known to be investigating the
| incident — has shut down the site. However, Wikileaks is hosted by Swedish
| provider PRQ — notorious for employing a "no questions asked" policy towards
| its customers — and U.S. authorities would lack the jurisdiction to take
| action against PRQ.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/breaking-wikilinks-missing
Wikileaks Shutdown: Censorship Is Censorship
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| If Wikileaks were a print publication, the injunction that has shut down the
| site would be unthinkable. Back in 1931, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a
| Minnesota law that allowed the closing of any "malicious, scandalous and
| defamatory" periodical. This court, by contrast, has not only barred future
| publication of the documents at issue but elected to put Wikileaks out of
| business.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/61873.html
Free Speech Advocates Mount Legal Battle to Unchain Wikileaks
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| In Bank Julius Baer & Co., Ltd v. Wikileaks, et al, the plaintiff claims that
| the posting of certain documents to the Wikileaks site violated Swiss and
| Cayman Island bank secrecy laws.
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| Judge Jeffrey White ordered domain registrar Dynadot to disable Wikileaks.org
| in response to Julius Baer & Co.'s complaint. The groups behind the request
| to lift the injunction claim that it violates the First Amendment.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/61876.html
WikiLeaks Under Fire
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| The transparency group WikiLeaks.org currently seems to be under heavy fire.
| The main WikiLeaks.org DNS entry is unavailable, reportedly due to a
| restraining order relating to a series of articles and documents released by
| WikiLeaks about off-shore trust structures in the Cayman Islands. The
| WikiLeaks whistle blower, allegedly former vice president of the Cayman
| Islands branch of swiss bank Julius Baer, states in the WikiLeaks documents
| that the bank supported tax evasion and money laundering by its clients from
| around the world
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/18/043211&from=rss
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