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Submission + - Microsoft Not aCathedral; Open Source Not Bazaar

Submitted by

AlexGr

on Thursday March 22, 2007 @10:37PM

AlexGr writes: "By Sean Michael Kerner (InternetNews.com) It's not every day that you see a Microsoft employee demonstrating Microsoft software running natively on Linux. Yet that's exactly what happened at AJAXWorld here, as Brad Abrams, group program manager at Microsoft for ASP.NET AJAX (codenamed Atlas) did today. During a morning keynote, Abrams declared that Microsoft is not the cathedral and that open source isn't really a bazaar when it comes to AJAX, a claim that undermines one of the core underpinnings of the open source movement. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3 667066"

Bookmark About The Boys & Girls Clubs of America (associatedcontent.com)

by Ryanr34 on Thursday March 22, 2007 @10:24PM

Bookmark The Daily Invention - Free invention ideas (thedailyinvention.com)

by mcmasterp on Thursday March 22, 2007 @10:12PM

RIAA Wins Worst Company In America 2007 306

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday March 22, 2007 @10:09PM from the best-of-the-worst dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After 15 punishing rounds of combat involving 32 of America's most hated companies, 100,000 voters have spoken: More hated than Halliburton, more despised than Walmart, the RIAA has defeated all comers to become the Worst Company in America 2007."

Journal Journal: Feds Specify and Mandate a "Secure" Windows 242

Journal by twitter on Thursday March 22, 2007 @09:44PM

The Register is reporting an effort to bring order to the wild world of Windows patching:

Feed Chief Says F.C.C. Is Against Cellphone Use on Airliners (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Thursday March 22, 2007 @09:12PM

The Federal Communications Commission is giving up on the idea of letting passengers use cellphones on planes.

Feed Oracle Says Rival Stole Its Software (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Thursday March 22, 2007 @09:12PM

Oracle has sued its rival SAP, accusing the big German software maker of intruding into its computer systems to carry out “corporate theft on a grand scale.”

Feed News Corp. And NBC in Web Deal (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Thursday March 22, 2007 @09:12PM

The networks hope to rival YouTube with a new venture to showcase their own programming across the Internet’s biggest Web sites.

Journal Journal: LinuxMCE loves my media, loves my house

Journal by Indulis on Thursday March 22, 2007 @08:58PM

For "whole of house" control and media freaks, you can have it all, pay $0, and enjoy the virtuous pleasures of Open Source at the same time, if LinuxMCE is to be believed. And why wouldn't we believe, after watching it in action at Google Video. LinuxMCE wraps Mythtv, Asterisk and other Open Source "must haves" inside a shiny wrapper full of lovely goodies. So squirm into y

Submission + - Summer of Code Student Application Deadline Looms

Submitted by

chrisd

on Thursday March 22, 2007 @08:48PM

chrisd writes: "Hi everyone, just wanted to do one last shake of the old tree...the Summer of Code student application deadline is coming up on the 26th. We've got some great applications but I'd love to see more. We're accepting 800 students this year into the program and we have 131 open source organizations who'd love to see you apply. Anyone can talk about open source but you could be coding some with some of the best developmers out there. Apply today."

Submission + - Language Learner Looks for Leads in Learning

Submitted by

zanzibar

on Thursday March 22, 2007 @08:36PM

zanzibar writes: "I learned C in a college course, I learned C++ and Java from books, and I learned Rails from blogs. I'm not convinced one of these methods was more effective than the others. I want to know what Slashdot's readers think about technical education. What do they want to learn and how do they want it delivered? What do they like about their options today (from college coursework to Wikiversity)? What's missing? What just doesn't work?"

Journal Journal: Digg is Bizarro Slashdot. 1

Journal by Sneakernets on Thursday March 22, 2007 @08:24PM

I have a confession to make.

Sadly, I joined Digg just so I could try to "talk" to the hopeless uninformed people of today and see what they really think.

How dumb I was.

Slashdot recently posted this article http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/22/2121214 which was laughed at in unison here. AS it SHOULD BE, it's blatant FUD through and through.

However, a look at Digg...

Comment Re:Most Random Poll Ever (Score 0, Redundant) 364

by purrdeta on Tuesday July 25, 2006 @10:49PM (#15781546) Attached to: Favorite Mario Powerup?

I agree! It was also fun to use. Just like this weird mushroom is hehe.

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