Don’t Let the FCC Design Your Software and Hardware.
The technology community needs to stand with opponents of the movie industry’s software-regulation scheme, also known as the Broadcast Flag. The EFF and others are suing to block stifling rules designed to protect Hollywood at everyone else’s expense.
Meanwhile, PublicKnowledge,org is lining up tech companies to sign comments [...]
c|Net features a story, “Army to Gates: Halt the free software” reporting that Microsoft is giving software away to government officials which “places our employees and soldiers in jeopardy of unknowingly committing a violation of the ethics rules and regulations to which they have taken an oath to uphold.” So, is Microsoft committing bribery?
Maybe we [...]
Heads-up to programmers trying to automate SourceSafe: [kbAlertz - Visual SourceSafe] points to a new Microsoft KnowledgeBase article indicating the Get command is no longer recursive in the latest 6.0d version of SourceSafe: FIX: The Get method behaves differently with VSSVersion and with VSSItem when you use OLE Automation in Visual SourceSafe 6.0d. (837417) - [...]
Microsoft Said to Encourage Big Investment in SCO Group. More evidence emerged about Microsoft’s role in encouraging the anti-Linux campaign being waged by the SCO Group, a small Utah company. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Technology]
