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Slashback: Epson, AbiWord, Justification
It was the least they could do. Last week, AbiWord's PayPal account for donations was lightened to the tune of several hundred dollars. Now, an anonymous reader writes "According to this posting, PayPal has succumbed to the pressure. They have agreed to reimburse the AbiWord team for the money that was stolen from their account last week. I still want to know how the AbiWord account was broken into..."
Because licenses matter. specht writes "I am a bit surprised that nobody has reported this yet. EPSON KOWA made their scanner and printer software available for downloading again after they had to pull it because of a GPL violation (see the previous Slashdot story). More information about this (and why it had to be removed in the first place) are here . Kudos to EPSON KOWA and EPSON for working with the FSF to resolve these issues."
No, that's "Gorilla marketing." akiaki007 writes "As many might have noticed, Friday most of Manhattan was covered with butterflies. This article on CNN that states that NYC fined MS $50.00 and the cost of cleaning up the static-cling plastic ads. On a side note, most other companies probably would have been fined per ad, though somehow MS got off, pretty much scot-free."
Priceless -- which is nice when you're paying. Digital Soldier writes "HERE is an article from Government Executive Magazine justifying, from a security perspective, the use of open source software in government. In short, the article makes the point that open source software allows security administrators to be pro-active rather than purely reactive in their work. I guess they don't like waiting for service packs."
Lovely spam, lovely spam ah ah ah ah ... ghostrider_one writes "Australian IT is reporting that notorious Australian spammers T3 direct have appealed the recent dismisssal of their lawsuit against the person they blame for being blacklisted in SPEWS."
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Walt Disney Company was the biggest corporate backer of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (both the EU and the USA versions) and one of the biggest voices in favor of the DMCA, next to Time Warner. See also Influence Inc.
Disney steals from the public domain and gives to its shareholders. Does this make Disney some sort of perverted Robin Hood?
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Now, let's discuss this rock I have that repels Dinosaurs - never been attacked ONCE since I started carrying it
Dinosaurs were the prehistoric form of birds. If you've ever had your Porsche® automobile or other expensive motor vehicle shat on by a flock of pigeons, you have been attacked by the descendants of dinosaurs.
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And Microsoft had to pay $50 and clean up the garbage?
Now Microsoft has to act out the role of the hero of a competing console company's title, Super Mario Sunshine!
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