EU study highlights Floss cost savings
A study on free, libre and open source software (Floss) commissioned by the EU has found considerable empirical impact on innovation and economic growth.
The paper, which can be downloaded here, points out that software is one of the key elements driving ICT's role in the economy, and the structure, competitiveness, performance of the ICT industry has the potential to be strongly affected by Floss.
"Floss applications are first-, second- or third-rung products in terms of market share in several markets, including Web servers, server operating systems, desktop operating systems, Web browsers, databases, e-mail and other ICT infrastructure systems," it says.
Vista critic says DRM opportunity for OSX, Linux
Peter Guttman, the security researcher who has written a detailed analysis of Windows Vista's deliberate degrading of certain types of content, says it is an opportunity for alternative platforms.
"It could well be that Apple's going to go and point out some of these really nasty things inside Vista and say, look at how bad this is," said Guttman in an interview with Security Now!
"Buy our computers and our operating system instead. And certainly the Linux people are going to use it for propaganda to make Linux look good."
SCO tries to avoid paying up in Novell case
Groklaw reports on SCO's Redacted Reply Memorandum in Opposition to Novell's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment - the one where Novell is asking for its money. Novell claims SCO does not own the copyrights to Unix and owes it royalties for collecting licence fees.
"SCO characterises it as asking the court "to employ what the United States Supreme Court has described as 'the nuclear weapon of the law' in seeking to tie up SCO's assets and thereby effectively put SCO out of business," says Pamela Jones of Groklaw.
"That is the trouble with starting wars. The other side is likely to shoot back."
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