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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- September 15, 2011

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Windows 8 May Have Devs Reaching for Painkillers
Facebook Rips a Page From Google+
How NOT to Push a New Open Source License, Part 1
That Tired Old Computer Could Be a Neat Media Streamer
Bossie Awards Crown FOSS' Best of Breed
Windows 8 on Tablets: Impressive Now, but Ask Me Again in 2012

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Today's Story Highlights

Windows 8 May Have Devs Reaching for Painkillers
Over half a million copies of the developer preview of Windows 8 have
been downloaded, according to Microsoft, giving app makers around the
world a sample of the software maker's upcoming operating system. Those
developers, though, may have to go through a learning curve if they want
to build Windows 8 tablet apps.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73294.html

Facebook Rips a Page From Google+
Facebook has been rolling out a slew of changes and new options, one of
the latest being its so-called smart friend lists. This feature creates
lists of a user's friends, automatically based on such criteria as work,
school, family and city. Users do have some control -- they can opt out
entirely. Or they can use the automatically generated lists to add
friends -- without, Facebook promises, a lot of effort.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73290.html

How NOT to Push a New Open Source License, Part 1
Bruce Perens recently introduced what he calls a "Covenant" open source
license on behalf of Lexis-Nexis, owned by Reed Elsevier, aka "the
scientific journal paywall people," for one of Lexis-Nexis' internal
projects. It didn't take long for readers on both slashdot and lwn to
rip it apart. Of particular concern was the requirement that
contributors assign their copyrights to Lexis-Nexis.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73291.html

That Tired Old Computer Could Be a Neat Media Streamer
One antidote to escalating household budgets is to cut utility services.
However, dropping trash pickup and dumping your garbage in neighbors'
receptacles in the middle of the night probably wouldn't go down too
well in the community. Likewise, terminating your electricity supply
won't play too well with the family after the novelty wears off --
possibly less than an hour if there's something good on TV, or it's
cold.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73287.html

Bossie Awards Crown FOSS' Best of Breed
Well September is shaping up to be a banner month here in the world of
free and open source software. Not only did we recently learn the
winners of this year's "Bossie" (Best of Open Source Software) awards,
but we have Software Freedom Day coming up this Saturday! Nothing like
awards and parties to make a person forget all about hack attacks and
other unsavory aspects of the daily grind.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73286.html

Windows 8 on Tablets: Impressive Now, but Ask Me Again in 2012
As a diehard Apple fan, it will take an absolutely astounding device to
dislodge me from my Mac, iPad and iPhone. And yet, the Windows 8
operating system for both tablets and PCs that Microsoft has been
showing off this week has caught my attention. Windows 8 on a tablet has
some features I would like to see available on my iPad -- seriously.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73284.html

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