Costly Hack Amounts to $825K. Pirate Bay’s Secret Source?

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

A hacker group called Mediadefender-Defenders has caused quite a ruckus for the actual Mediadefender anti-piracy group, which provides anti-piracy tools. A hack that found its way to a Mediadefender employee’s Gmail account among other things cost the company at least $825,000. That’s a hefty price to pay, and ...

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Book Review: Open Source Licensing

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Lawyers and programmers have at least one thing in common their day-to-day work puts them in contact with issues that seem obscure and esoteric to the general public. That makes the terms of open source licenses doubly difficult to understand but Lawrence Rosen does an admirable job explaining ...

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Microsoft Continues War on Open Source

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

It s no secret that Microsoft has been unhappy with the open source software movement for a long time. Ever since Eric Raymond posted the first Halloween document in 1988 it s been clear that the software giant considers such software a threat to its monopoly. Microsoft s latest ...

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Upcoming PHP and Open Source Conferences

Monday, April 9th, 2007

There are a number of quality PHP and open source conferences each year. Here are a few that are taking place in the next month or two: php|tek 16 - 18 May Chicago, Illinois ...

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CHMOD: Tool for Open Source Administration

Monday, December 5th, 2005

CHMOD chmod is a UNIX oriented command that means Changing Mode. It lets you change the mode hence the name of the file or directory ies depending on how the chmod command is used. When I say changing mode ...

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O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2005

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

Circle August 1-5 on your calendar and join in at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in beautiful Portland, Oregon. OSCON 2005 will be at the Oregon Convention Center, where there will be tutorials, sessions, parties, BOFs, and a huge exhibit hall.

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