By Grant Gross - Victor Yodaiken, CEO of the company that makes RTLinux, says he believes the Free Software Foundation's accusation that his company is violating the GNU General Public License with its patent of RTLinux may be a misunderstanding. Researchers are beginning to discover ways to prevent this secondary damage and reduce the eventual harm. Your company is on the verge of filing bankruptcy, but manages to save face by finding a purchaser of your assets. PC World examines a number of different stores and methods of purchasing retail computers, detailing and explaining their findings. ZDNet reports on the disposable cell phones expected to come to the American market this October, and what the security risks with them may be.
Most free software is written in order to scratch someone's itch.
It is written because the author wants a piece of custom software, and then decides to share. From osOpinion . CNet reports that the Big Five music labels and music publishers have agreed on a set of terms that would allow the labels to offer most of their catalogs through an Internet subscription service. With the 2.4 release of Linux come a host of new filesystem possibilities, including Reiserfs, XFS, GFS, and others. ZDNet Asia has a story about the impact recent airline delays in the United States is having on Asian chipmakers.