<b>Boycott Novell:</b> "Summary: War is peace and Microsoft is the new “open”; Details on the latest attack of Microsoft against GNU/Linux, using proxies"
<b>Ghabuntu:</b> "On Linux, the Gimp has its own collection of plugins and scripts, but to satisfy the folks who look down upon Linux and Gimp, I will present not one but two ways to do the work of Photoshop plugins in Linux."
<b>InfoWorld:</b> "Source code availability is a central factor in establishing trust in the open source community, as knowledge that the source is available can often allay fears about the future of a particular open source project or product. And yet, this trust can often be overstated."
<b>Datamation:</b> "It shouldn't be so hard to get a price - my motto is that the harder it takes to find out pricing, the less motivated customers are going to be to buy it."
Despite improved security software applications and greater consumer awareness, Google's Postini said total spam volume increased six percent in the first quarter of 2010.
<b>eSecurityPlanet:</b> "Botnets cranked out more spam and larger individual files containing spam in the first quarter of this year, according to the latest report from Postini, Google's e-mail filtering and security service."
<b>LWN.net:</b> "Konstatin Dmitriev's Morevna Project is to 2-D animation what the Blender Foundation's Open movie projects have been for 3-D. The goal is to produce a production-quality, full-length animated feature, using only open source software, and license the source content and final product under free, re-use-friendly terms."
<b>Network World: </b>"Two law professors from UC Berkeley have come up with a novel idea to protect open source developers from patent bullies. They call it the Defensive Patent License. They hope the DPL can address the objections FOSS developers have with patents the way the GPL addressed them for copyright."
<b>Info World:</b> "Symantec will acquire encryption specialist PGP and endpoint security vendor GuardianEdge Technologies for $300 million and $70 million respectively, the company said on Thursday."
In an effort to boost security across the Web, Mozilla is extending its service for verifying plugins to competing browsers, although some questions remain.
<b>Linux Pro Magazine:</b> "And that's if the update installs at all, as there have been reports that the download cycle hits an endless loop and never fully completes."
Monday morning quarterbacking will likely take the form of big network traffic spikes as employees (and yes, owners too) jump on social networks to either celebrate or mourn. You need to know the risks.
You probably think $480 is a little steep for a netbook, and it is -- for one that doesn't have dual-core horsepower, a full-sized keyboard, and a 12- instead of 10-inch screen. We test MSI's netbook for people who don't like netbooks.
You probably think $480 is a little steep for a netbook, and it is -- for one that doesn't have dual-core horsepower, a full-sized keyboard, and a 12- instead of 10-inch screen. We test MSI's netbook for people who don't like netbooks.