Slashback: Epson, AbiWord, Justification

Slashback tonight brings you updates on AbiWord's recent donation theft, persistent Australian spammers, more support for open software in government, and more -- read on below. Update: 10/31 00:09 GMT by T : Oops, doubled news of AbiWord / Paypal situation update has been halved; apologies.

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."

Comments

double slashback?

[niloroth]

Is it just me, or have we gone from having two posts about the same issue, to having two stories in the same post about the same thing?

Oh my god...

[Dark Lord Seth]

Mickey and Minnie Mouse have turned traitor!

Takes the biscuit...

[Andy Smith]

"That's the PayPal news. Now it's time for the PayPal news..."

Jeez, lots of people bitch and whine about duplicate stories being posted, but when the same news is posted twice in the *same* story, you gotta laugh...

Re:A new first?

[Mac Beckett]

That's all very interesting, but did you hear that PayPal has paid back the money that was stolen from AbiWord?

True! I read it on /.

That's all very interesting, but did you hear that PayPal has paid back the money that was stolen from AbiWord?

True! I read it on /.

Mac

Re:It occurs to me...

[Elwood P Dowd]

many marketing companies in London regularly go around spray-painting music artist's names onto street furniture

We don't keep our furniture in the street, so it's really not relevant. If I left my furniture in the street, I'm sure I'd expect that sort of thing too.