New: Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing. O'Reilly's Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing discusses copyright, patent, and warranty issues with open source licenses and explores how to choose among the licenses. [
MacInTouch]
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Is Google Helping China Censor the Net?. New Scientist: Google omits controversial news stories in China. Some users recently reported that Google's Chinese news search returned different results depending when they searched using a computer based outside of China. The claims were substantiated by researchers who connected to computers inside the country.
Very disturbing if true, but not all that surprising.
The tech industry, after all, has happily been supplying China with technology that helps keep the Great Firewall up and running. Networking giant Cisco, for example, is just one of the many suppliers in this system.
The Net will be zoned, it seems.
See also the comments on this story on Slashdot. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
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IT (And Other) Salaries On The Rise In The U.S. [Slashdot:]
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