Oracle Claims 70x Speed Improvement MySQL
1 Jan 1970 12:00am GMT From the Umm wow dept.: Oracle wins back some karma from the open source community be releasing MySQL cluster 7.2 with ambitious claims of 70x performance gains. The new release is GPL and claims to have processed over 1 billion queries per minute.
LibreOffice 3.5 Released
1 Jan 1970 12:00am GMT From the Spellcheck dept.: The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5, the third major release of “the best free office suite ever”, which shows to end users the improvements derived from the development strategy adopted since September 2010. LibreOffice 3.5 derives from the combined effort of full time hackers – the largest group of experienced OOo code developers – and volunteer hackers, coordinated by the Engineering Steering Committee. During 16 months, an...
Germany refuses to sign ACTA amid protests
1 Jan 1970 12:00am GMT From the Familiarity with Totalitarianism dept.: Germany will not sign an international anti-piracy treaty, despite having already agreed to it in principal, government sources in Berlin said Friday, February 10. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), initiated by the United States and Japan, seeks to protect intellectual property rights, “including infringement taking place in the digital environment.”
Eolas Patent Ruled Invalid. Troll Doesn't Own the Internet
1 Jan 1970 12:00am GMT From the Another Bullet Dodged dept.: An East Texas patent case that has attracted the attention of the technology world came to a screeching halt Thursday as the jury ruled that the key patent in the case is invalid. Eolas, a patent troll that has been shaking down technology companies for the better part of a decade, now faces the prospect of losing the patent. As our sister site Wired reported yesterday, the case centers on a biologist, Michael Doyle, who claims to have invented the concept...
Central Europe Backs Out of Copyright Deal After Protests
1 Jan 1970 12:00am GMT From the Free World dept.: Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia this week put the ratification of a controversial international copyright agreement on hold amid concerns it would lead to censorship online. The three countries, along with most others in the European Union, last month signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, which seeks to harmonize copyright protection across the countries that signed up, including the U.S.