It's quite bitter when OS X Intel is already hacked before it's actually available:
MacBidouille reports that the Apple Developer kit version of Mac OS X x86, released to developers in early June, has been "hacked" to work with a PC notebook. The report includes a video showing Mac OS X x86 booting natively on a Pentium M 735-based notebook.
And this despite TPM and similar tricks. Maybe Apple should switch back to PowerPC after all, which is not more secure, but at least there's no alternative hardware at bargain prices like with Intel.
In das Netzbuch: last.fm verhärmt sich selbst Ralf describes how last.fm is leaving reality. I will also have to say goodbye to my earlier recommendation - there are already enough proprietary streaming clients, we don't need another one - especially not if it doesn't even work properly. Too bad - it was a nice way to discover new and interesting music. But not like this.
Speculation is rife that a lawsuit by an eFax company against competitors for using Asterisk could be related to SCO and all the nonsense surrounding it:
Now, Groklaw is speculating about the extent to which the move could be a general patent attack on free software. The reason for this is a close connection between the SCO Group and j2. Among the supporters of the software company, which has been in a heated dispute over intellectual property in Linux components, particularly with IBM, for a long time, is the investment firm Krevlin Advisors. It is also a major shareholder in j2.
But even if there's nothing to the rumors, the whole thing will certainly be idiotic and annoying again - and yet another proof that software patents and business method patents are utter nonsense. In any case, Asterisk (essentially a telephone system implemented in software) could soon become another battleground - if only because it may appear as a threat to one or another manufacturer of smaller telephone systems. And the market for telephone systems is, after all, characterized by very strange sales strategies and even stranger contractual situations (not without reason, telephone system maintenance contracts are occasionally declared invalid for violating good morals).
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