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IT Management Linux News for Oct 23, 2001
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InfoWorld: How A Dream Works (Oct 23, 2001, 22:32)
"As is the situation at many companies, Dreamworks' IT budget is
not an infinite resource. To that end, Leonard is making a name for
himself as an example of how Linux can be cost-efficiently deployed
in large-scale environments. 'My background is software, so I've
always been fascinated with shareware, emerging software, and just
creating interesting, cool applications,' Leonard says. 'But I
wasn't really involved in the Linux movement.'"
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NewsForge: Learning from Mozilla's mistakes
(Oct 23, 2001, 18:28)
"When the Mozilla project started, it immediately became the
number one poster child for Open Source software development. Now
its luster is tarnished to the point where closed source advocates
point to Mozilla as an example of how Open Source cannot compete
one-on-one with proprietary software, in this case with Microsoft's
Internet Explorer. Is this true? Or was Mozilla's development
process, not the fact that it was Open Source, to blame for its
problems?"
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InfoWorld: Viva Linux in Las Vegas (Oct 23, 2001, 17:46)
"As I wandered down aisle after aisle of corporations selling
their wares to ISPs and ASPs , I saw no obvious sign of Linux or
other open-source solutions. Yet, as is everything else in Las
Vegas, nothing is ever as it appears."
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CNET News.com: Tech giants pan anti-piracy mandate
(Oct 23, 2001, 11:51)
"After weeks of conference calls and quiet rallying of the
troops, technology companies including Intel, IBM, Microsoft and
Compaq Computer held a coming-out press conference Monday to oppose
a broad copyright protection proposal being backed by Walt Disney
and Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C."
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TransGaming Subscriptions Go Live, Gavriel State Interviewed (Oct 23, 2001, 02:20)
More TransGaming news today: GameSpy interviews Gavriel State
about the company's subscription model (wherein users vote with
money to select which Windows games get specific attention to work
under the company's WineX product); and TransGaming's new site,
which offers the ability to subscribe has gone live today. Links to
both items within.
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