15th September 2002 Archive

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• Psion to launch WinCE-based netBook?

  There's a horrible underlying logic. Pass the Linux, Alice...

  Fresh from executing a long-overdue netBook retread, Psion is poised for full-scale betrayal* by switching the machine over to Windows CE - or so, at least, claims a report in the Australian Financial Review. The piece, which cites "a source briefed by the company," definitely says "switch" rather than 'introduce a new model …

  Personal 15 Sep 2002, 14:59

• RMS: why open source needs Free Software's ideals

  To fight MS lobbying, argues Stallman, the community needs to stop downplaying its origins

  The following is an open letter from Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman to SecurityFocus' Jon Lasser, in response to his article Lobbying for Insecurity: I read your article about Microsoft and Security-Enhanced Linux with interest, and saw your advice to the open-source community. I do not advocate open …

  Software 15 Sep 2002, 15:31

• First smileys date back to time of Plato, apparently

  Not really born in 1982 after all...

  Last week's piece on the rediscovery of the first smiley produced a predictably bumper response from our busy and serious-minded readership. For starters, Biran Culvey would like us to "correct an obvious error. Discussion of Star Trek was only a short diversion from the more serious and lengthy discussion of short, cute aliens …

  Music and Media 15 Sep 2002, 16:06