P2P households’ insatiable appetite for free music
The New York Times reports that while the growth rate for legal music downloading services is far higher than that for illegal ones, “the average peer-to-peer household still downloads far [...]
Bye-bye .xxx
According to the BBC, “[p]lans to create an internet domain specifically for pornographic websites have been rejected.” The BBC’s website states that “[t]he proposal for the .xxx domain was voted [...]
40 percent of companies have been hit with malware
According to eWeek.com, “[a] new report by Webroot Software has found that more than 40 percent of companies surveyed had been hit with malware that disrupted their business.” In a [...]
GPL 3.0: v. (for Vendetta)
With the release of the most recent discussion draft today, one thing is immediately clear: this third version of the General Public License can be simply written “GPL v.” – [...]
GPLv3 Draft 3: Building Walls Between Open Source and Proprietary Software
Washington, DC – The third discussion draft of the General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) released by the Free Software Foundation today is designed to limit cooperation between the open [...]
Is U.S. science and technology leadership being slowly eroded?
Reuters reports that, according to the World Economic Forum, “[t]he United States is falling behind European countries and Singapore in exploiting information technology.” This is mainly due “to relative deterioration [...]