Archive 23. August 2004

Microsoft Receives 'Sudo Patent'

How annoying, the US Patent Office has no idea again and Microsoft gets a patent on something that's existed for Unix since the 80s

At heise online news there's the original article.

News: Trouble with cdrecord

Yes, some programmers of GPL-licensed software probably didn't fully understand the meaning and implications either ...

Here is the original article.

SourceForge.net: Project Info - DoXFS Document Management System - Document archive with XFS and PHP frontend

vnunet.com - Micro Focus lifts and shifts Cobol to Linux

The horror won't let go of me: I spent the first 10 years of my professional career programming with exactly this compiler system. An inventory management system. And now the monster is coming to Linux ...

Here's the original article.