Friday, November 26, 2004

Torvalds comes out against EU patent directive. Three prominent open-source software developers, including Linus Torvalds, are urging the European Union Council to reject legislation that would codify the granting of software patents in the EU. [Computerworld News] 4:46:24 PM    comment []

Holidays already looking merry for Web retailers. It's already shaping up to be a very merry holiday season for online retailers, with the share of Internet traffic going to shopping sites already besting last year's high, set on Thanksgiving day, Nielsen/NetRatings said. [Computerworld News] 4:46:09 PM    comment []

U.K. government hit with another large computer failure. As many as 80,000 civil servants at the U.K.'s Department of Work and Pensions had to deal with what is being described as the biggest computer crash in government history on Monday. [Computerworld News] 4:45:44 PM    comment []

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