First Review of the Treo 600 Smartphone

First Review of the Treo 600 Smartphone

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday June 26, @09:32PM
from the kicking-the-tires dept.
jlouderb writes "Handspring debuted the biggest product at last week's lCeBit show in New York. Lots of news articles were written about the Treo 600, but I actually got to borrow one of the few prototypes for a day." Looks like the only real negatives are that there's no protection for the screen, and no removable battery, otherwise it's a tight little device. It'll be interesting to see the release model in action.

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Law Professor Examines SCO Case

Law Professor Examines SCO Case

Posted by michael on Thursday June 26, @10:49AM
from the legal-eagle dept.
An anonymous submitter writes "This law professor from the University of California points out weakness in SCO's legal bluster, and further takes a poke at closed software, for those hungry for more SCO scraps. At the end, he references Slashdot for more info ('itself a demonstration of the power of dispersed individuals working together')."

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I, Cringely | The Pulpit:"The IBM lawyers (who ARE IP lawyers) will strongly argue that none of this matters since we have a case of a single person who did two very similar implementations based on his earlier research. Both his UNIX and Linux versions (works B and C) were derived from his original research (work A) which was not exclusively limited to UNIX. His paper shows that was the case and while SCO may see it as the smoking gun, IBM will see it as the proof of innocence. "

Excellent piece on the SCO v. IBM dustup that explores the actual origin of the code that SCO says IBM inserted into Linux in violation of its licenses.

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