" It seems like only yesterday the news was leaked on Slashdot that the XFree86 project would be awarded the $25,000 IDG/Linus Torvalds Community Award at the winter LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Actually, it's been four years now, and my oh my, how things have changed. David Dawes, developer/release engineer for the XFree86 project, posted the news on the project website Wednesday: The XFree86 core developers team has voted to disband itself."
Link: http://www.newsforge.com/software/04/01/02/0042218.shtml?tid=132&tid=82 ...and from the Washington post: " This is the year the Internet officially stopped being fun. The festering problems of spam, spyware, viruses, worms and pop-ups boiled over, making the online experience merely annoying at best, financially and emotionally destructive at worst. Users of Microsoft Windows found themselves in the bull's-eye -- years of inattention to security issues in Redmond, Wash., left them exposed to the Blaster worm, the Sobig virus, Messenger Service pop-ups, spyware infestations and worse, while Mac and Linux users missed out on all the "fun."" Heh. Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33688-2003Dec27.html -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!"-- Rick Mercer
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