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Mark Cuban on Grokster

As I mentioned in the most recent LinuxQuestions.org Podcast, Mark Cuban is helping Grokster in their legal defense against MGM.  Grokster losing this case really has the potential to stifle innovation (the case centers around whether a company is responsible if a technology they come up with is used

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MySQL Grows Up

While it's great to see MySQL maturing, one has to hope that they don't forget where they came from or why they are so popular.  It's fantastic that they are adding stored procedures, triggers, views and ACID features to MySQL ('fixing 10 years

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How Progeny Survived the Dot-com Crash

An interesting article about how Progeny was able to weather the dot-com crash and turn into a profitable company.  Some words of wisdom from Ian Murdock, who was a major reason that Progeny was able to stay afloat. --jeremy

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Yahoo! 360° Followup

I've had a little more time to play with Yahoo 360 since this post.  I covered some of the things they did right in that post (Ability to add custom RSS feeds "coming soon", ability to blog and share reviews, decent integration with other Yahoo! bits

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Yahoo! 360°

Thanks to Jeremy I have a Yahoo! 360° Beta account.  Don't have a ton of time this second, but I'll take a better poke around in a bit.  Looks nice after a cursory glance though.  Ability to add custom RSS feeds "coming soon", ability

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LQ ISO update

LQ ISO is now smart enough to know what country you are visiting from and show you mirrors in your country before all others.  Of course you still have the ability to choose from the full mirror list, but this feature should make finding a close download mirror that much

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I'll be on the Linux Link Tech Show Tonight II

In case you weren't able to listen to the Linux Link Tech Show last night, I've posted an OGG of the show.  Hopefully you'll find the segment I was in interesting ;)  I come in just about 38 minutes into the show. --jeremy

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I'll be on the Linux Link Tech Show Tonight

Looks like I'll be on The Linux Link Tech Show tonight.  The show starts at 8:30 EST.  Tune in! --jeremy

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A GPL Win in Michigan - DrewTech v. SAE

I was extremely excited when I read the above headline...and then I read the article.  It's great to see that the attorney thinks that the "SAE surrendered to the GPL" and I'm certainly glad that the side representing the the GPL came out

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Danese Cooper: reflections of an open source diva

A great article from Danese Cooper, who was an Open Source evangelist at Sun and will soon be going to Intel.  This article is a good look inside Sun and it shows that some people there really truly do get it.  The article touches on Open Sourcing Java and also

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Web 2.0 Starting to Bubble?

It seems like the Web 2.0 bubble may be starting to form. InterActiveCorp buys Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion Ask Jeeves Purchases Bloglines in Multi-Million Dollar Deal Yahoo acquires Flickr Six Apart Buys LiveJournal Are just a few of the headlines from the recent past.  Web companies are

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LinuxWorld Canada Followup - Free Passes and a Discount

I'm happy to report that as a result of LQ sponsoring LinuxWorld Canada, I am able to offer free passes to everyone.  Additionally, if you'd like to purchase a conference pass, you can get 25% off by using code A101.  We're still finalizing whether

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A Couple LQ Initiatives

I hate to use the word "Initiatives" actually.  It sounds much too corporate and much too office space for what LQ really is.  I couldn't think of a better word though, and it probably won't send LQ into a whirl of red tape and

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LQ to Sponsor LinuxWorld Canada

I am happy to report that LinuxQuestions.org is going to be sponsoring the upcoming LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Canada which will be held on April 18 - 20, 2005 in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.  As of now it even looks like LQ may be exhibiting, so stay tuned

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TiVo to Make Customized Version for Comcast

This may quell the continuing sentiment that TiVo will surely die as a result of not being able to sign a deal with a major Cable company (after recently losing their exclusive deal with DirectTV).  I have to admit that I don't quite like my TiVo as much

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Ubuntu Joins LQ

I am happy to announce that Ubuntu has joined LinuxQuestions.org.  Visit the Ubuntu Forum.  Welcome aboard and thanks for your participation.  On a related note, if you know someone at a distribution that doesn't participate at LQ but would like to, please contact me.  All distributions are

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Sun vs. Red Hat

Is it just me, or do you get the feeling that the media really wants a Red Hat vs. Sun battle.  Maybe it's because Jonathan Schwartz keeps equating Linux to Red Hat, but I'd guess that it's just because it makes a good story.

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Ben Goodger Responds

Ben Goodger has responded to the Firefox issues I posted about here.  They have a solid plan for both FF 1.1 and 2.0.  Ben, who is a lead engineer, has also delegated some additional tasks which should free him up for release management, code reviews and long-neglected areas

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Yarro-Canopy Settlement Details Released

The details of the Yarro-Canopy case I posted about here have now been released.  Yarro and the other two former execs agreed to drop their case and in exchange Yarro received all of the SCOX stock that Canopy held - 5.4 million shares of stock or about 30 percent

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LQ to Sponsor LinuxWorld New York Summit

I am happy to announce that LinuxQuestions.org will be sponsoring the upcoming LinuxWorld New York Summit.  Thanks again to IDG for working with LQ and allowing us to help promote another quality Linux event.  Don't forget that the Open Source Business Conference (which we are also a

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Trouble in Paradise?

With Mozilla having an uncertain future and the Firefox development process being called into question, is the project doomed?  One really has to hope not.  With Firefox being so mainstream, for it to falter would be a huge setback for Open Source (whether deserved or not), at least from a

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Why I like Blogs II

I mentioned a little about why I like Blogs here.  Here's another good example.  Mark Cuban, an intelligent savvy investor who happens to be a billionaire, is giving you a look into his portfolio.  He even gives you both Longs and Shorts.  Now, should you go blindly invest

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IBM, Lenovo PC Deal Passes U.S. Review

Well, it appears that the IBM-Levanto deal just got approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).  Can't say I'm too happy about this one.  I really like the Thinkpad and while it's obviously too early to say that the

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Yarro-Canopy Cases Settle

Looks the Canopy Cases that we mentioned in a recent LQ Podcast have now been settled.  Here are some additional details.  Looks to me like the counter suit had more merit than the actual suit.  The details of the settlements have not been released at this point.  Sad to think

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Another Jeremy Blog

This is why I like blogs in general and why I read Jeremy Zawodny's blog specifically.  A long time (at least by Internet standards) Yahoo! employee telling everyone how useful Google's Desktop Search just got to him.  A couple snippets: I had tried the previous version