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[ZDNet - Oracle taking back OpenSolaris]...There is no longer such a thing as Open Solaris, and I think anyone who bought Sun’s promises on building an open alternative to Linux just got punked.

Oracle is now going to try and make people pay for software that includes contributions from a community which believed in good faith it was building an open source product...

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[ZDNet - An iPad for every student] - It used to be that universities would offer discounts on the purchase of new computers. Then a number of them went so far as to offer a laptop as part of the tuition. Now we’re hearing that one enterprising university, Seton Hill, is planning to give every full-time student starting in the Fall, 2010 an iPad. The iPad will come as part of the school’s Technology Advantage Program, and is expected to offer the students’ textbooks via download from the iBook Store.

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