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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 07 Feb 2000 13:00:00 GMT
I'm planning to go to DaveNet live tomorrow evening from 6-7:30 in room 304 of the Hynes Auditorium in Boston. I'll be in Boston to see a specialist about the bone cyst in my son, Christopher's, femur. Karla (my wife) wants to visit her sister, so we decided to stay overnight. in sha' allah, I'll finally meet Dave Winer. Yay!

LinuxPR - Corel-Inprise/Borland Merger to Create Linux Powerhouse: "Upon completion of the merger, Inprise/Borland will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Corel... The transaction is expected to close in the late spring..." Other stories at the San Jose Mercury News and CNET.

WorldNetDaily - UPS rates skyrocket: Costs for some services nearly doubling today. "Under this new and virtually unknown policy, any package that has a length-plus-girth measurement between 84 and 108 inches (OS1) will continue to be billed at the greater of 30 pounds, or its actual weight. However, a package with a length-plus-girth measurement that exceeds 108 inches will now be classified as OS2, and will be billed at seventy pounds, or its actual weight, whichever is greater."

Matthew Hiller at OSOpinion - Cronus Overthrown: a perspective on CSS and SDMI: "Efforts to control the redistribution of home entertainment are likewise doomed to long-term failure, at least in the context of the developed world's present sociolegal systems*. The reason is simple: no matter how many encryption and authentication measures and so on are packed into the recording industry's products, when it comes time to use them their content needs to be fully available to the output devices -- the CRT, the speakers, whatever. There will always be a way to tap into that stream just before it hits the output devices and to save off the bits as they come down the line. This done, the song or the movie or whatever can encoded in the same or a different format and redistributed however the copier sees fit."

Wide Open News - New Software Laws, Fewer Consumer Rights. Short commentary on UCITA with a pointer to the LA Times article I mentioned yesterday and a UCITA Draft link.

I've immortalized my {@Real Money} paragraph of last Saturday as a story.

Jon Udell at Byte.com - A Perl Hacker in the Land of Python. Contrasts Perl & Python from 10,000 feet.

JavaWorld - Apple announces Java 2 plans at MacWorld. Apple will finally ship a Java 2 in MacOS X. They're not saying if it will be based on Sun's 1.2 or 1.3 release. Mentions Alexander Repenning's AgentSheets, a neat technology that started out in Macintosh Common Lisp (not mentioned in the article) and is now in Java.

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