Wednesday, June 04, 2003|
First Net-schooled lawyers pass bar First Net-schooled lawyers pass bar - "He had passed, along with five others from the class, who will now be known as the first Web-trained lawyers. Four others failed, and will have to take the bar exam again if they want to practice law." - MSNBC Concord, the first completely online law school, manages a 60% pass rate on the CA bar. Not too bad. For comparisons sake, in GA the Feb 03 overall pass rate was 59.4%. 2:21:43 PM  comment []
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Microsoft's browser play. The software giant hints it may no longer release a standalone browser, raising new questions about its monopoly endgame. "Antitrust experts said that because the appeals court had found, on a technicality, that the government had failed to prove IE commanded a monopoly, Microsoft's move to remove standalone IE from the market wouldn't run afoul of any restrictions placed on the company by the courts. The courts forbade Microsoft from refusing to offer a version of Windows without IE, antitrust lawyers pointed out. But the company remains free to offer IE only bundled with a $199 copy of Windows." [CNET News.com] 9:53:07 AM comment []
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Killing Linux - Opinions from PC Magazine Killing Linux - Opinions from PC Magazine - "And what happens if there is an out-of-court settlement and IBM does some under-the-table deal and suddenly emerges as the top Linux vendor with the only legal license to use certain aspects of the kernel? What does that do to the whole Linux house of cards?" Analysis by Dvorak is good, but it misses the mark. It essentially assumes that SCO's code was copied into Linux by IBM. This is coming at the same time that SCO is saying that it will show "hundreds of lines" of code that were copied into Linux. There are an estimated 3,377,902 lines of code in the 2.4 kernel. It hardly seems likely that SCO can prove any sort of damage based on "hundreds of lines" of code. In addition, the Linux kernel is very well documented. Archives exist showing the state of the kernel back to at least 1.0.9. It would be very easy to see who contributed what and when. Copied code could be easily removed. Something else that needs to be considered here is that in many ways Linux and it's open source model, like it or not, is the futre of networked operating systems. UNIX, with its licensed, closed source model, is the past. IBM, embracing Linux, is focusing on its future, SCO, grasping onto UNIX, is looking squarely backward. 9:26:43 AM comment []
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