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 Firebug (Firefox Addon) Gets Dedicated Team: Mozilla Posted by: comforteagle
From the Thank You! dept.:
John Resig: I've got a mini-announcement. Starting this week about half of my time at Mozilla is going to be spent driving the direction of the brand-new Mozilla Firebug team. I'm, understandably, quite excited about this proposition. Like all web developers I've found Firebug to be an invaluable tool for web development.
We have a great team forming - I'm going to be joined by:
* Jan Odvarko - Long-time Firebug hacker.
* Rob Campbell - Mozilla hacker, tester, and tool developer. (His announcement post)
We're in a very primordial stage right now - we're meeting at the Firefox Summit at the end of the month and again at the beginning of August for the Firebug Working Group. We'll be setting some major goals for post-Firebug 1.2 development. I highly suspect that we'll be doing some exploratory Firebug extension development as well.
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Google's Android platform: not so open after all: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Who Wha!? dept.:
Google vowed that its Linux-based Android mobile platform would empower enthusiasts and amateur developers, but today we have seen compelling evidence that this is an empty promise. Third-party Android application developers, who have grown increasingly frustrated with the lack of SDK updates, were shocked to discover that Google has been secretly making new versions of the Android SDK available to the Android Developer Challenge (ADC) finalists under non-disclosure agreements.
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Firefox 3.0.1: Mozilla Posted by: comforteagle
From the Plugged Holes dept.:
As part of Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 3.0.1 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download from http://getfirefox.com/.
We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release.
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Judge Kimball Rules at Last!: Legal Posted by: comforteagle
From the Sure there will be more to come dept.:
...Judge Kimball did not change anything in his August 10th order, which I was afraid might happen. He could have, had he heard anything that he didn't know when he made that order. So, SCO breached its fiduciary duty to Novell, converted funds, and so it has to pay. That is ironic, in that this case started with SCO accusing Novell of slander of title, and asking for millions in damages. Instead it has to *pay* Novell millions.
However, Judge Kimball accepted SCO's argument that UnixWare is the latest version of UNIX and that it was the foundation of all the other agreements, even though SYSV was also involved, or so SCO thought. He accepted SCO's argument that if SCO was wrong about owning the copyrights, and it was, then it's too bad for the licensees -- they just got less than they thought they were paying for, and that is a matter for them to work through with SCO. So if EV1, for example, wanted its money back, or part of it, it would have to sue SCO.
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Patent Gridlock Suppresses Innovation: Tech Posted by: comforteagle
From the Not My Job dept.:
The Founders might have used quill pens, but they would roll their eyes at how, in this supposedly technology-minded era, we're undermining their intention to encourage innovation. The U.S. is stumbling in the transition from their Industrial Age to our Information Age, despite the charge in the Constitution that Congress "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
For the third year in a row, Congress has just given up on passing a law reforming how patents are awarded and litigated. This despite growing evidence that for most industries, today's patent system causes more harm than good. Litigation costs, driven by uncertainty about who owns what rights, are now so huge that they outweigh the profits earned from patents.
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Linux 2.6.26 Kernel Released: Linux Posted by: comforteagle
From the Kernel dept.:
Linus writes: So it's been almost three months since 2.6.25 (87 days to be exact, I think), making this a longer-than-usual release cycle. Or maybe it just feels that way, and we're always getting close to three months these days.
But it's out there now. Or rather, the git tree is out there, and the patch/tar-ball is still uploading as I write this.
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OpenSUSE rolls out auto-build service: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Rolling Your Own dept.:
The OpenSUSE Project has launched an automated build system aimed at helping developers build and package their applications. The "OpenSUSE Build Service" can package source code for several popular distributions, and cross-compile it for a variety of embedded architectures, according to the Project.
The OpenSUSE Project has apparently been working on its Build Service software for some time. However, it announced today that an initial 1.0 release of the tools would be used to power a service that in turn would be used to create the next release of OpenSUSE.
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Google Open Sources Browser Sync: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Give it away now... dept.:
After announcing that Browser Sync was being discontinued, a lot of people asked for Google to open source the code so development could continue. Well, they've done just that.
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Best Buy Selling Ubuntu: Linux Posted by: comforteagle
From the Flashbacks dept.:
It appears that Best Buy is now selling Ubuntu, both through its Web site and in its brick-and-mortar locations. Going by the release on the product page, Ubuntu has actually been available for the low, low price of $19.99 since May 6th of this year. It is being packaged as the "Complete Edition." While they don't specify on the site what version is being offered, a quick call to a local store revealed it to be Hardy Heron, the latest Long Term Support version.
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Mozilla Foundation developing a model for a security metric: Mozilla Posted by: comforteagle
From the Patches are a Good ThingTM dept.:
The Mozilla Foundation plans to develop a better model for gauging the security of its Firefox web browser. In contrast to Microsoft, the number of officially provided security updates is not to be the sole parameter used. According to the method in which Microsoft measures security, an absence of patches would equate to a high degree of security. The Microsoft approach is further illustrated by its claim that Vista is still more secure than other operating systems. In contrast to this approach, the Mozilla Foundation wants its evaluation to include a variety of factors involved in the development process and the techniques and tools used in it. The sequence of the process from the time a security vulnerability is reported until a patch is distributed is also to be analysed.
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