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IBM’s Double Face on Patents
IBM recently caused a lot of cheer when it announced that [it is lobbying for patent reform][ibm patents 1]. Apart from this, [IBM has also pledged 500 U.S. Patents to Open Source][ibm patents 2] recently. [This post][ibm doubleface] by Greg … Continue reading
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Bitkeeper plays spoil-sport. Linux looking for a new SCM
Amidst controversy over work done by Samba developer Andrew Tridgell, Linux is (about time) moving out of Bitkeeper, and looking for a new SCM. The short story is this. Background: For some time, Linux has been using the controversial Bitkeeper … Continue reading
MaxMind donates its city database
The drupal blog mentions that: The company MaxMind.com has agreed to release their cities of the world database under the GPL. The database contains locations by country, city, latitude and longitude. There are over 3,047,000 records in the database. The … Continue reading
11 NIT/REC Directors removed by the HRD Ministry
In a swooping country wide move, the HRD ministry has removed the directors of 11 NITs (previously named RECs) across the country citing an irregular process of appointment by the previous government. The present HRD ministry under Mr. Arjun Singh … Continue reading
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Is it ‘of-fen’ or ‘of-ten’?
I have frequently felt moments of disorientation when certain characters of TV (mostly Americans) pronounce o-f-t-e-n with a audible ‘t’. Digging around a bit, I found an interesting bit of trivia at dictionary.com. The definition of ‘often’ mentions: During the … Continue reading
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The American Bankruptcy Bill – Stay bankrupted
First they made sure that medicines cost the earth. Then they made sure that you need insurance before you can get health benefits. Then they made sure that you are completely surrounded – rocket high medical bills and insurance not … Continue reading
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lug-delhi hallofshame featured in online news
Some months back, the lug-delhi.org HallOfShame was written about in an article at Techtree. The article also features a short tele-interview that I had with the author. Link to article. I have, for the time being, suspended any additions by … Continue reading
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The Sify broadband India-wide scam
Since my bad experience with Sify, I have been looking around for other similar complaints against Sify. It turns out that they have been running a country-wide racket. Ankur Raheja has filed a case against Sify broadband for losses due … Continue reading
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Parents Anniversary Yesterday
It was my parents anniversary yesterday. We had cake and flowers and candles. Uploaded pics for the day to my Flickr account. The pictures are collected into a set here. I am loving Flickr. Having a hosted services for storing … Continue reading
Hula Server – The New OSS Groupware Server in Town
Novell “open sources” its Netmail product to start off Hula Server – a new calendar and mail server available under both LGPL and MPL. Interestingly, the licence is the more permissive LGPL and not GPL. Perhaps, this is so that … Continue reading
