Contrary to popular belief, copy protection isn’t dead. Microsoft continues to strive vigorously to eliminate software piracy, probably because it hurts their profits so badly. I mean, they don’t have all of the money in the world yet, right?
If you’re not running Unix, but you want to know what it’s like to use WindowMaker, check out the DHTML Windowmaker Simulator. Even if you don’t really care about WindowMaker, it’s still an interesting DHTML application.
I understand that News.com feels the need to define terms in ways that their audience can comprehend, unfortunately, sometimes their ultra-brief definitions are more humerous than useful. Take, for example, this definition of Unix from a story today: “Unix is a generic computer language or operating system that is not proprietary or owned by any single company.” Try again, guys.
The guys at the Free Software Foundation are looking to pay someone $20,000 (you have to skip past some garbage in the email to get to the part about the book) to write a book about GNOME. The existing software documentation on the GNU web site is very good; I’ll be interested to see who accepts the offer.
Ziff-Davis is reporting that Microsoft is now the browser leader. It seems less impressive when you consider that Internet Explorer is the browser in AOL, which is good for 12 million or so users by itself.