By effectively siding with what is known in cryptography circles as "security through obscurity," the controversial idea that keeping security methods secret makes them more impenetrable, the FCC has drawn an outcry from the software radio set and raised eyebrows among some security experts.

Alolita Sharma and Robert Adkins met up with Max Spevack, chairman of the Fedora project, at the Red Hat Summit in San Diego to talk about all things Fedora and the road ahead.

"When the Joomla! project - one of the most widely used open source content management systems - announced on June 15 that that it would be "committing to compliance with the GPL" users were left wondering at the implications."

Yes, Microsoft - which for years has been locking users out of old formats with its dazzling ranges of new formats to 'encourage' us to upgrade to its latest versions.

Microsoft's UK head Gordon Frazer even had the gall to warn of a looming "digital dark age".

"The new GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 is not a fit for Linux because switching would require permission from the kernel's thousands of de facto owners, a maintainer of the SCSI portion of the kernel said on Thursday."

An infoworld exchange between Dave Dargo and Dave Klein... the "intellectual dishonesty" debate continues!

""Unless more work is done to ensure legacy file formats can be read and edited in the future, we face a digital dark hole.""

New head of the European Patent Office (EPO), Alison Brimelow, has signalled her intentions early, calling a public meeting to discuss the policy vacuum left by the rejection of the Directive on Computer Implemented Inventions.