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Openwashing, Proprietary Software and Digital Restrictions (DRM)

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 16th of December 2019 01:56:07 PM Filed under
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  • FUSE for macOS: Why a popular open source library became closed source and commercially licensed

    In May this year, users of popular open source project FUSE for macOS noticed the source code for the latest update was missing. The project had become closed source and was no longer free for commercial use. But as The Reg discovered when we had a talk with its maintainer, there was a very good reason for that – and it's not a good look for the many companies that used it.

    FUSE stands for File System in Userspace and lets developers create a custom filesystem without writing code for the kernel. If you have a database or a cloud storage system, for example, and you want it to appear to the operating system as just another set of files and folders, you can use FUSE.

  • Linux Foundation Aims to Make a DENT in Old Guard’s Dominance with New Networking OS Project

    Project will “benefit customers by eliminating vendor lock-in and allow hardware vendors to compete on a level playing field”

    The Linux Foundation has a brand new open source baby with some heavyweight godparents: the new project, DENT, aims to create a new, non-proprietary network operating system (OS) that can tackle the issue of networking vendor lock-in head-on.

    In particular, DENT’s members intend to build a lightweight, Linux-based networking OS stack suitable for “remote” locations, they said late Friday, using the Linux kernel, Switchdev (a Linux kernel driver model for Ethernet switches) and other Linux projects to allow developers to “treat networking ASICs and silicon like any other hardware.”

  • Cloud Walkers Makes LPARs More Native On IBM i

    There are a few different technologies that have been grafted onto the OS/400 and IBM i platform from the outside that are just architected differently from and run somewhat counter to the integrated nature of that platform, and all of them are involved, in one way or another, with managing logical partitions on the Power Systems platform and all of them make IBM i shops cranky.

    They are, in no certain order: the PowerVM hypervisor, the Hardware Management Console (HMC), the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS), the PowerVC variant of OpenStack that is native to Power Systems, and external disk arrays, usually of the Storwize V5000 or V7000 SAN variety but sometimes the DS8000 SAN series. In one way or another, once customers get to a certain size and complexity when it comes to logical partitions on their IBM i machines, they have to wrestle with these things on anywhere from an occasional to a daily basis. And it is a lot.

    So Bartlomiej Grabowski, the founder and chief executive officer of Cloud Walkers, a software startup based in Prague in the Czech Republic, is doing something about it with his LPARKit set of tools for the IBM i platform.

  • Large Hospital System Hit by Ransomware Attack

    The attack forced hospitals to reschedule nonemergency surgeries and doctors and nurses to deliver care without access to electronic records.

    The system said it was advised by experts not to disclose until Friday that it had been the victim of a ransomware attack. It said that its network’s primary clinical systems had returned to being operational, and that information technology specialists were working to bring all of its applications back online.

  • Apple's parental controls in iOS 13.3 can be easily bypassed

    It turns out that a bug relating to the privacy controls can be easily circumnavigated which could allow pesky kids to talk to people they shouldn't or even total strangers.

  • Apple's new iPhone software is supposed to limit who your kid talks to, but a bug lets them get around it

    Apple rolled out iOS 13.3 on Tuesday with new controls that are supposed to give parents power over who their children talk to on an iPhone or iPad. It's a big new feature that Apple is advertising and has garnered lots of press.

    But CNBC discovered it doesn't work properly. There are several bugs with the feature, but, most importantly, it doesn't protect your kids from talking to strangers on the phone, FaceTime or through text messages.

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