SCO’s website has been defaced by hackers for two days running. The website’s masthead was changed with a new banner that read “We own all your code – pay us all your money“. SCO has become the favourite target of software programmers around the world after its case against IBM about the ownership of Unix code and seen as a direct attack of Linux. Darl McBride also earns the hatred of geekdom for his arrogant behaviour and dodgy facial hair.
The free and open source developing world is abuzz with a new feature from GitHub called Copilot. This is a programming tool that has been trained using code from GitHub’s own corpus. For those familiar, Read more…
*Thanks to Simon Phipps for coining “fake GNUs“, which I’m totally stealing. The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community has been shaken by a minor yet interesting incident that has opened a discussion on Read more…
Amongst one of the most archaic legal arguments one can engage in, the question of whether free software licences are contracts or mere licences is up there with similar arcane questions about monkeys having rights. Read more…
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Anonymous · November 30, 2004 at 3:35 am
I would have thought arrogant behaviour and dodgy facial hair DEFINED geekdom :->LE
Anonymous · November 30, 2004 at 3:35 am
I would have thought arrogant behaviour and dodgy facial hair DEFINED geekdom :->LE