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Developers Betrayed by Apple Are Uniting, Microsoft EULA Repels

... to gather together and whinge about Apple’s apparent agenda in keeping them out. In related news, Dana Blankenhorn writes about “Death of the black box EULA” and he offers lip service to Richard Stallman. But the black box EULA was always hopelessly one-sided. It was unfair to customers. And lawyers could provide no help — they had written the black box EULA and were sworn to uphold...

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Competition made Microsoft open source embedded .NET

Makers of embedded devices have been moving strongly into open source, especially Linux, and Microsoft was at great risk of being left behind. by Dana Blankenhorn

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Daily Links for Wednesday, November 11, 2009

... what pundits like me have said in the past. Open source tries to save the world SmartPlanet / Dana Blankenhorn By announcing first as an open source company, People Power was able to secure, not only start-up capital, but firm alliances with UC Berkeley and Stanford University. That’s a lot of brainpower. People Power plans to launch a project dubbed the Open Source Home Area Network...

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News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...

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Google Privacy Dashboard

... patient health data rights another tool to track who has access to their health information. As Dana Blankenhorn says : What if you could find out where all your health data is? What if you could learn just which doctors, which hospitals, which insurers have what types of electronic data on you? Knowing what’s out there, and knowing the rules for releasing that data, you can...

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Kidneys do not like those chip and diet soda lunches

Linn and Gary Curhan published two studies, one of which found a correlation between high sodium intake and kidney function decline (that's the chips), the other of which found a correlation between artificial sweetener intake and kidney function loss (that's the diet soda.) by Dana Blankenhorn

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Dear Linus: Trademarks are not Security Blankets

Dana Blankenhorn understands how trademark law works. Evidently, Linus Torvald’s lawyers don’t. And if Dana’s wrong and Linus is right, why, that will be an interesting new chapter in the IP rent-grab-a-thon: Open source trademarks, where quality control (the sine qua non of trademark licensing) is, to say the least, besides the [...]

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Open Source Subsumed by Microsoft and Blackboard

... camp. This also means pretending to be players in “Open Source”, in ODF, and in social causes. Dana Blankenhorn correctly points out what we warned about twice in recent days not because Blackboard is suing competitors using software patents [ 1 , 2 , 3 ] but because it is trying to embrace and extend its Free software rivals, just as Microsoft does. Anyone seeking a case study of...

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Ubuntu celebrates Thursday drop of koala desktop and server

A list of supported netbooks is available, but the company is suggesting you pack a thumb drive with its Ubuntu Netbook Remix when you go to the store, just to make sure. Should make Friday at Fry's fun. by Dana Blankenhorn

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Can open source software stop IT failure?

ZDNet open source blogger, Dana Blankenhorn, says open source software offers at least a partial solution to the problem of IT failures. Let's examine that view. by Michael Krigsman

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Windows 7 will shine in medicine

There are no longer any excuses for doctors to have tablet PCs equipped with a pen-like stylus, an interface just as good as the clipboard and, over time, better. by Dana Blankenhorn

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Gartner Group Wrong Again

Summary : Gartner does not follow own advice whilst attacking Free software using straw men T ECHDIRT has done some fantastic job showing how Gartner is not following its own advice . This is interesting to note now that Gartner analysts throw FUD at Free software . The latest such FUD attack has gotten a reaction from Dana Blankenhorn, who argues that “analysts build open source straw...