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Somebody better tell Microsoft that it’s still March, because the suggestion of an “Internet usage tax” to fight Windows-powered botnets must be an April Fool’s joke let out a month too early. According to Robert McMillan’s piece on ComputerWorld , Scott Charney (Microsoft’s veep for Trustworthy Computing) suggests that one way to fund fighting botnets is to tax users. “You could say it’s a public safety issue and do it with general taxation.” You could, but let’s not
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Posts Tagged ‘linux-magazine’
Improve Internet Health with a Microsoft Tax?
March 3rd, 2010 
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Posted in Open Source News 
Tags: botnet, bots, end-item, internet-spread, linux, linux-magazine, Problem, public-service, publications, scott-charney, static-buffer, Virus, windows, windows-based 
No Comments »Document Freedom Day Coming March 31
March 2nd, 2010 Admin |
Old documents never die, but sometimes they can’t be read. Wednesday, March 31st, is Document Freedom Day — a day for groups all around the world to raise awareness about open document formats and open standards, and to ensure that no documents are left behind due to proprietary formats. DFD is celebrated every year on the last Wednesday in March
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Document Freedom Day Coming March 31
Posted in Open Source News Tags: document freedom day, document-freedom, europe, Freedom, fsf, linux, linux-magazine, nyc, odf, oracle, publications, spread-the-word, word No Comments »Document Freedom Day Coming March 31
March 2nd, 2010 Admin |
Old documents never die, but sometimes they can’t be read. Wednesday, March 31st, is Document Freedom Day — a day for groups all around the world to raise awareness about open document formats and open standards, and to ensure that no documents are left behind due to proprietary formats.
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Document Freedom Day Coming March 31
Posted in Open Source News Tags: dfd, fsf, fsfe, linux, linux-magazine, nyc, odf, oracle, search No Comments »KDE SC 4.4 Available on Windows
March 1st, 2010 Admin |
The KDE Project has announced the availability of packages for Microsoft Windows, bringing the KDE 4.4 applications to Windows. New in this release, the packages have been broken out from the main KDE modules so it should be easier for users to simply install a single package if they choose
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KDE SC 4.4 Available on Windows
Posted in Open Source News Tags: Desktop, extensions, gnome, kde, linux-magazine, project, publications, release, release-brings, time, windows No Comments »StatusNet Goes Enterprise
February 26th, 2010 Admin |
StatusNet is taking microblogs to the enterprise, launching the StatusNet Enterprise Network (SEN) today to manage microblog servers for corporate customers. Initial customers include Canonical and Motorola.
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StatusNet Goes Enterprise
Posted in Open Source News Tags: agpl, Business, facebook, identi.ca, linux, linux-magazine, makes-it-easier, php, Public, statusnet No Comments »
