7th July 2012 Archive

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• Open source incest: GPL forked by its coauthor

  Updated Will licensing licentiousness rile Free Softies?

  One of the principal authors of version 3 of the Gnu General Public License (GPL) has spun off his own version of the license without the participation of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), in a move that could ruffle feathers in the often-cantankerous free software community. The new license has been dubbed GPL.next, and it' …

  Developer 7 Jul 00:35

• Ten budget inkjet printers

  Product Round-up Bargain basement all-in-ones

  As money continues to be tight, buying a new all-in-one often takes a back seat. However, if an old machine has died, or a son or daughter needs something to print coursework, you may be forced to flex a card. On the up side, you could be surprised at some of the bargains which are available in the inkjet market. You can pick …

  Hardware 7 Jul 07:00

• Security firm in Tor Project 'mass surveillance' row responds

  'We accept or reject, we do not store'

  Cyberoam has responded to warnings that its security device open up traffic to inspection by third-parties. Researchers affiliated to the anonymity-protecting Tor Project discovered that the skeleton key digital certificate on Cyberoam devices that permitted the inspection of SSL traffic was the same on every device. "It is …

  Security 7 Jul 09:02

• 'Maybe we'll just call them 'Surface-like devices'

  Quotw Plus: Boffins get excited over the 'heaviest boson ever found'

  This was the week when a few patent skirmishes came to head as Samsung failed to get a stay on the bans Apple won on both the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone in the US. Meanwhile, in the UK, a judge ruled HTC had not infringed on four of Apple's patents – and added that three of them were invalid anyway. Oh, and …

  Bootnotes 7 Jul 11:02