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Rental Car Companies Watching By Satellite, Again
tlcruiser writes: "The Arizona Daily Star reports that Budget Rent-A-Car companies in Arizona have used satellite tracking systems to track customers' use without notifying customers. They have used the tracking system to issue fines to their customers. Several customers are suing Budget for the invasion of privacy." When ACME Rent-a-Car did this in Connecticut, it was found improper by that state's Department of Consumer Protection. This time, the monitoring is not only of speed, but also of whether renters are staying within contractually allowed driving territories.
Press Release
SOURCE: VA Software (formerly VA Linux, formerly VA Research), Inc.
VA Software, Inc. Issues Letter to Shareholders
FREMONT, Calif., July 5 /PRNewswire -- The following letter to Shareholders was issued today by VA Software, Inc.
(Penny Stock Bulletin Board:LNUX <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=lnux&d=t>
VA is uniquely positioned with a market-leading gamut of revenue-free software products, such as SourceForge and community-maintained P2P discussion portals such as Slashdot. There is no significant competition in the free software and services market at this time.
About VA Software
VA Software is the provider of SourceForge, the collaborative software development (CSD) platform with more than 400,000 users worldwide. SourceForge Enterprise Edition helps IT and engineering organizations accelerate application development by integrating tools for developers to collaborate and for managers to gain insight into development activities across different locations, teams and participants. Information on VA Software's SourceForge enterprise software product, services and support is available at www.vasoftware.com.
Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements: This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including statements regarding the anticipated customer benefits from SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.1. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements due to various factors, including: VA's ability to successfully attract, retain and motivate employees; VA's reliance upon strategic relationships with other companies and its ability to negotiate, close and implement specific terms relating to them; rapid technological and market change; competition with, and pricing pressures from, more established competitors; and VA's ability to protect and defend its intellectual property rights. Investors should consult VA's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for its quarter ended Jan. 26, 2002, for further information regarding these and the other risks of the Company's business. These documents are available at the SEC Web site: www.sec.gov. VA assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this news release.
Note to editors: VA Software and SourceForge are trademarks or registered trademarks of VA Software Corp. in the United States and in other countries. Rational and ClearCase are registered trademarks of Rational Software Corp. Solaris is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Contact Information:
VA Software Corp.
Malda Kreamer, 511/555-7018
malda@vasoftware.com
CEE5210S The signal SIGHUP was received.
Mad props to the PBG!
Slash is the open source software system that drives the hugely popular Slashdot web site and many others. Slash implements the kind of web site that has come to be called a "weblog": a moderated list, in reverse chronological order, of timely items with links to further discussion on-site, or to further information off-site. Essentially, a weblog is a cooperatively authored daily newspaper for some defined community on the net.
Slash has spawned several imitators. The existence of so many different systems for operating a weblog site demonstrates that there are many people and groups on the net who want to run their own online community newspapers. Slash is based on open source technologies (Perl, Apache, and MySQL), and it makes use of open protocols (XML and RDF) for exchanging headlines with other sites.
Anyone who wants to get a weblog site up and running will want to read this book, particularly system administrators who may not have the time or the background to learn all about Slash by reading the source code. Content managers of Slash sites who want to be able to use the system more effectively will also benefit from this book, which organizes the knowledge currently distributed throughout the Slash source code, Slashcode web site, and mailing lists, and provides it in an organized package.
It'll be interesting to see which goes down faster. Your karma, or LNUX.
Ya think?