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McAfee, Macromedia Flirting With F/OSS Community

Posted by timothy on from the batting-eyes-shuffling-feet dept.

xbsd writes "Those computer industry specialists claiming that the end of Linux is fast approaching may be interested in two recent movements inside the industry. Two weeks ago, McAfee, one of the world leaders in computer security products, launched its first commercial antivirus solution for Linux, and just yesterday, Macromedia announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation and plans to deliver a next-generation rich Internet application (RIA) development tool code-named Zorn based on the popular open-source IDE."

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  1. from McAfee's datasheet... by brer_rabbit · · Score: 3, Insightful
    from the first line of McAfee's datasheet...

    The world reverberated from the effects of viruses such as Nimda, CodeRed, and more recently, Slammer, Mydoom, Netsky, and Bagle.

    well, the Windows world reverberated....

  2. Re:Eclipse Faster by Black+Art · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fedora Core 4 has binaries for Eclipse in the "core" repository, as well as SRPMS.

    http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/development/ SRPMS/

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  3. Re:End of OSS? by ErikTheRed · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Who actually believed the people who were saying that Linux et. al. were going to fail? I mean, there's millions of people who want to use a better OS, and more importantly, many of those people also want to help to make their OS better.
    It's the same group that thought the Internet was 'just a fad.' And remember how that group included Microsoft?
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