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FSF works with PayPal to the benefit of the free software community
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| The Free Software Foundation thanks PayPal
| for responding to its concerns and making
| its terms more free software friendly.
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http://www.fsf.org/news/paypal
Bona fide open source
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| Has open source become a victim of its own
| success as businesses identify as it just
| to look good?
|
| [...]
|
| The Free Software movement emerged from
| Richard Stallman's project to create a a
| UNIX-like free operating system in
| September 1983.
|
| 'Open Source' emerged much later, in 1998,
| after Linux and free software had begun to
| amass a substantial following among users
| and developers and had made significant
| inroads into the computer industry.
|
| Some saw 'open source' as a radical
| departure from the objectives of free
| software, but many saw it as a rebranding
| which made it easier to sell free software
| to a business audience, shorn of the
| political trimmings that gave the free
| software movment its edginess.
|
| The Open Source Definition took its
| substance from the Debian Free Software
| Guidelines.
|
| "Open source is a development methodology;
| free software is a social movement," wrote
| Stallman.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/618034/bona-fide-open-source
Recent:
PayPal Says Linux Grid Can Replace Mainframes
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| PayPal is currently processing $1,571 worth of transactions per second in 17
| different currencies on about 4,000 servers running Red Hat Linux.
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204300034&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News
PayPal Plans to Ban Unsafe Browsers
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| PayPal says allowing customers to make financial transactions on unsafe
| browsers "is equal to a car manufacturer allowing drivers to buy one of their
| vehicles without seat belts."
|
| PayPal, one of the brands most spoofed in phishing attacks, is working on a
| plan to block its users from making transactions from Web browsers that don't
| provide anti-phishing protection.
|
| The eBay-owned company, which runs a Web-based payment system that allows the
| transfer of funds between bank accounts and credit cards, said browsers that
| do not have support for blocking identity theft-related Web sites or for EV
| SSL (Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer) certificates are
| considered "unsafe" for financial transactions.
|
| "In our view, letting users view the PayPal site on one of these browsers is
| equal to a car manufacturer allowing drivers to buy one of their vehicles
| without seat belts," said PayPal Chief Information Security Officer Michael
| Barrett.
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http://www.eweek.com/index2.php?option=content&task=view&id=47667&pop=1&hide_ads=1&page=0&hide_js=1
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