“Microsoft has long had a love-hate relationship with software piracy. On the one hand it sees this practice as its number one business problem in areas where it has succeeded in establishing market dominance, and on the other Microsoft has, since the QDOS deal with IBM, consistently made it easy for people to copy…”
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VMware has just released version 1.0 of its free VMware Server. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems (”virtual machines”) such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system.
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Laser vision… Australian Dr Larry Marshall and France’s Jean-Michel Pelaprat pose before the world’s first laser television, which they say uses less power, has more colour range and costs half the price of LCD and plasma screens
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As a result of the Apple enforcement of its “pod” trademark, Leo Laporte & Scott Bourne are willing to finance an effort to trademark “netcast” as an alternative to “podcast”. They have agreed to foot an expected $30,000 cost to trademark the term, to be owned by a podcaster’s trade group.
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