On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 12:05, JoeHill wrote: > " 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. Yuck Yuck > > Link: > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33688-2003Dec27.html
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