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Linux Pipeline Newsletter www.LinuxPipeline.com WEDNESDAY, MARCH 01, 2006 In This Issue: - IBM, Novell Unveil Open Source ID Management - Zero-Day Exploit Turns Up Heat On Mac OS X - Windows Steals Top Server OS Spot From Unix - More News... - Patent Lawsuit Targets Key Web Standards - Unix Futures: Six Vendors Share Their OS Roadmaps - In Practice: Wikis In The Workplace - More Picks... This issue sponsored by Microsoft Visit the Enterprise Server Systems Resource Center, a microsite for your server software needs. Onsite you'll find frequently updated custom-written columns, blogs and resources on the latest in server technology, database server technology, and TCO issues. "http://enterpriseserver.techweb.com/servers" ----------------------------------------- Editor's Note: Fighting The Data-Dealers If you use the Internet, then you fall into one of two categories. You are: a) deeply concerned about the lack of concern and respect many companies show towards your personal data, or you are b) a fool about to be parted from your money. Since I have yet to spot a bona-fide fool among my newsletter readers, I strongly suggest checking out our lead news story this week, covering a joint IBM-Novell effort to develop what they term "open-source ID management." For obvious reasons, if something comes in an open-source package, I'm inclined to support it. And while I wish IBM, Novell, and everyone involved with this project the very best of luck, I can already hear the roars of laughter coming from office buildings across the land, as bankers, utility companies, insurers, and countless other firm ponder the idea that they might turn over all of that personal data to the people who own it. The brutal truth is, our personal data -- the sale, purchase, exchange, mining, pilfering, and pillaging of the details that define our existence in a modern, technologically-advanced society -- is worth incalculable amounts of money. If Eisenhower were alive today, I suspect he'd quit picking nits over the military-industrial complex and get really worried once he saw what these cats had in store for all of us. In fact, the only way to turn back the clock on this process would be through legislation. What are the chances of that happening? Joseph Stalin once asked rhetorically, when told that the Pope would take a dim view of a decision he had just made, how many battalions the Pope had under his command. Equifax, and Bank of America, and Wal-Mart will want to know how many legislators the "open-source ID management" community can marshal by picking up the phone and making just one call -- as opposed to collecting machine-signed Congressional form letters, thanking (your name here) for being such concerned citizens. Yes, indeed, the shadowy masters of the data-industrial complex will quit trafficking in your most private and personal data -- just as soon as we find a way to pry it out of their cold, dead hands. Until then, we'll protect ourselves the only way we can: by trying not to think too hard about what will happen if our personal data happens to be on the next laptop computer that gets lifted out of some nitwit's car. Enjoy the rest of your week, and stay in touch.
Matt McKenzie
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Zero-Day Exploit Turns Up Heat On Mac OS X
Windows Steals Top Server OS Spot From Unix
CDT Says Privacy Laws No Match For Government Spy-Tech
Group Files New Complaint With EU Against Microsoft
Cisco Denies Assisting Chinese Censors
EarthLink, Google Apply For San Francisco Wireless Network
Search Engines Fight Copyright-Infringement Suits
Microsoft Vows To Fight Korean Antitrust Ruling Editor's Picks Patent Lawsuit Targets Key Web Standards A tiny development company claims its patent covers all rich-media technology implementations, including those that employ tools such as Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax, and XAML, when the apps are accessed over the Internet.
Unix Futures: Six Vendors Share Their OS Roadmaps
In Practice: Wikis In The Workplace
Black Duck Keeps Open Source Out Of Hot Water
MIT Media Lab's New Boss Aims To Reinvent R&D
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