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> If Microsoft has such a problem with people hacking into the loopholes of
> their closed source code, what type of malicious viruses will we begin seeing
> if an Open Source Operating system such as Linux becomes the dominant OS?
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> Open source i
I image there will be a host of "malicious viruses"... but this seems to me
as an advantage and just the opposite happening as you imply
Here's an example... PHP Nuke (an open source CMS) could be the most
popular Web Portal Software. Developed by Francisco Burzi in 2003 its number
of user
Dear DDN members,
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We're sitting here at Isen's Freedom to Connect Conference in DC (er...
Silver Spring, MD in the AFI Silver Theatre) where Jim Baller just spoke
along with Tery Huvel of LUS. Also just spoke with Wendy Wigen of
http://www.EduCause.edu, and J.H Snider of New America Foundation.
There is a live au
I think we also need to keep in mind that most of the viruses are meant to
attack M'soft based systems...that's why the Mac users have a ball!
Anu
PhD Candidate
School of Information Studies
4-206 Center for Science & Technology
Syracuse University
Syracuse New York 13244-4100
Ph: +1 (315) 443 490
An editorial from the Tallahassee Democrat in Florida -ac
High-speed learning
In the decade or so that the Internet has become a household word, the
conversation largely has turned from simple access to quality of access
- at least for computer users on the right side of the "digital divide."
Hello. I am a researcher and journalist in India and have been
following the discussions with great interest. As Judith pointed out,
research and documentation of uses of the Simputer would be critical.
Moreover, these findings should be made available to as many people as
possible - through the Ne
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Raymond wrote: "If Microsoft has such a problem with people hacking into the
loopholes of their closed source code, what type of malicious viruses will
we begin seeing if an Open Source Operating system such as Linux becomes the
dominant OS?"
I think we will see quick, decisive responses to hacks
Friends:
Here is a message (on simputers) I received from Ms Laina Raveendran Greene,
an ICT4D consultant working out of California and Singapore. In fact Laina
must have met Dr Swami Manohar, one of the founders of the simputer project,
as both of them were there at the PANASIA review meeting o
Dear colleagues:
Below is a draft schedule of events, conferences and other meetings
related to key stake-holders involved in the UN World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS) process.
It is a personal effort , one where I try to complement the list
maintained by the ITU . It includes "offi
Civil Society and Multi-Stakeholderism:
Discussion emerging about opportunities and strange bedfellows
Ralf Bendrath of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation has written this essay
about the internal debates within civil society whether it should or
shouldn't work more closely with the private sector and
I actually like the idea of a simple low cost computer to "assist" with
bridging the digital divide, with an emphasis on ASSIST. But I do have a
problem with the idea of Open Source operating system; maybe someone can
clarify this for me.
If Microsoft has such a problem with people hacking into t
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