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...personnel at AT&T's operations hub in New Jersey reported for duty by 6 a.m. to block the virus. Within hours, some 100 desktop machines were already infected, and technicians had to ditch more than 2 million infected e-mail messages. By contrast, colleges and universities, strongholds of Linux and Macintosh computer systems rather than the targeted Microsoft Windows, got off comparatively lightly...
...prevent Microsoft domination of "middleware" like Java and Netscape. Middleware allows software developers to write programs that function equally across different operating systems, making an operating system itself less relevant. After the breakup, the applications portion of Microsoft would have incentives for compatibility with as many platforms as possible. Linux (a Unix-like operating system) would become a much more viable operating system if a Linux version of Microsoft Office was developed; a dependable supply of quality applications would be a boon to both Linux and Apple's MacOS. Only with equivalent applications on a variety of platforms can there...
...NAME, TEAM] Joyce Young, Red Hat [SOLD*] $40 million [CURRENT**] 0 [INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS] Aunt of Linux firm's founder gives all her winnings to charity...
TETRIS OF TITANS Talk about your big game. Last week students at Brown University turned one wall of the university's 14-story Sciences Library into a giant outdoor version of the popular video game Tetris. Powered by an ordinary PC running Linux, the installation uses 10,000 Christmas lights. It took the 30 residents of Tech House, a dorm for nerdy types, more than five months of planning, programming, hammering, soldering and debugging to put it all together. Even so, it's not the largest Tetris game of all time. Back in 1995, students at Delft University of Technology...
...makes an inferior product. Scarcely a day after Judge Jackson's ruling of law last week, AOL and Gateway unveiled a trio of low-cost Internet-access devices that pointedly excluded Microsoft from their party. The devices--a countertop, a desktop and a wireless Web appliance--use upstart Linux, rather than Microsoft's Windows, as their operating system. Linux, according to AOL and Gateway execs, beat Windows to the punch by being faster and more reliable. Ouch...