Wednesday November 21, 2007 links for 2007-11-21
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Background on why and how OpenSolaris has been donated kernel-level code for supporting CIFS/SMB.
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Mark fingers the ethical issues and inconsitencies behind Amazon's new Kindle device, and does it using Bezos own words.
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John writes what I had been thinking. The big problem with eBooks is that I can't pass them on to my children, who are now avidly reading much of my collection.
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Fortunately the bank we use for this payment is separate from the rest of our domestic finances, but this incident is completely disgraceful.
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I've heard plenty of people claim that the Free software community is afraid of GPL actually appearing in a court case. Seems SFLC is determined to prove that's untrue.
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It would be funny if it weren't so truthy.
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Let's see if this does anything about the trolls that have driven many of the useful participants away. The lists also need the restructure that Zak suggested, hope someone was listening.
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A license selection wizard for OpenOffice.org that adds license metadata to your document.
Posted by webmink
( Nov 21 2007, 12:22:49 AM PST )
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As for Kindle, I think it will fail for several reasons including... DRM, Everything is a service that requires payment (even putting an ebook you own on kindle). I'm currently looking into the Bookeen unit because of this. It lacks touch screen and wifi, but it makes up in flexibility.
Posted by Gary Gendel on November 21, 2007 at 09:35 AM PST #