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Posts Tagged Security

Culture Matters

The mid-week sojourn to Thailand gave me an opportunity to finish “Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress“, a collection of essays by reknowned scholars (Francis Fukuyama, Nathan Glazer, David Landes etc) on the impact of culture on human societies. It was slow reading at the start, until I came across a fantastic paper by [...]


McAfee is McScrewed

McAfee, the security company, is warning its investors that the alleged ambiguity of Free Software licenses may put its business at risk:
“Use of GPL software could subject certain portions of our proprietary software to the GPL requirements, which may have adverse effects on our sales of the products incorporating any such software“
No shit, sherlock!
Let’s review [...]