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Le point de vue de Nicolas Roberge d'Ovologic. J'ai commenté.

Despite Microsoft's patent claims against open source over the years, it has chosen a few favorites to exclude from the taint of infringement, Mono chief among them. Mono enables .Net applications to run on Linux and almost certainly steps on Microsoft patents in the process. In November 2006 Microsoft and Novell, the primary company behind Mono development, consummated an interoperability agreement that included protection of Mono developers, but under fairly strict terms and only for Novell customers.

Mono was open source, in other words, but only usable for a select class of developer.

It therefore surprised some when Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution and an ardent opponent of software patents, decided to include Mono in its standard distribution...

Brad Linder wrote: « Nice Translator is a web translation service that's powered by Google Translate, but which has a more attractive interface and a few nifty tricks like the ability to translate text into multiple language simultaneously. »

André Riedl a écrit: « On a tendance à être très critique de l’attitude des employés, mais vous est-il, un instant, venu à l’idée que leur attitude en général reflète assez fidèlement celle du patron ?» ...

J'ai commenté...

« Lorsque la MàJ de Ff est sortie, j'espérais que la version serait rapidement disponible dans les dépôts Ubuntu... Heureusement que ce n'était pas le cas: cette version est loin d'avoir la qualité qu'on est en droit de s'attendre de la part de Mozilla...

J'utilise Firefox depuis longtemps et je l'apprécie mais pas au point de me faire passer un «crap» pareil...

Je trouve déplorable la complaisance au sujet des bugs de la version 3.5.

Voir cet article d'Andrew Thomas (un coup de gueule bien sentit...)
http://climenole.wordpress.com/2009...

J'attends la 3.5.1...
:) »

Paul Ryan wrote: « Mozilla is adding support for multiprocess browsing to Firefox. The feature, which is already found in Google Chrome, will improve the stability and security of Mozilla's browser. Ars takes a look at the current status of the implementation and at an early demo that shows a page rendering in a separate process....»

Pierre Fraser a écrit: « Plusieurs lecteurs pensent que je suis anti-écolo ou anti-environnemental, ce qui est totalement faux, bien au contraire, car je suis de ceux qui ont un profond respect pour l’environnement dans lequel nous vivons. Le problème, c’est que je considère qu’une éthique environnementale...»

"Books that collect chapters from numerous expert authors often fail to do more than be a collection of disjointed ideas. Simply combining expert essays does not always make for an interesting, cohesive read. Beautiful Security: Leading Security Experts Explain How They Think is an exception to that and is definitely worth a read.

Microsoft will next month present its browser-as-operating-system project to an international symposium of computer and security experts.

The Microsoft Research team behind Gazelle plans to discuss the architecture and principles behind their baby at the Usenix Security Symposium in Montreal, Canada.