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5:30 PM ET, August 1, 2006

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Bruce Meyerson / Associated Press:

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Tim / O'Reilly Radar:

Open Source Licenses are Obsolete — Last week at OSCON, I made the seemingly controversial statement "Open Source Licenses Are Obsolete. During the Q&A period, Michael Tiemann of Red Hat and the Open Source Initiative took issue with my statement, pointing out just how much value open source licenses have created.

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Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:

Digital kids — MySpace blurs line between friends and flacks — The volume of advertising in MySpace and other social networks is expected to balloon in the next few years, and much of it could blur the lines between socializing, entertainment and marketing.

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Dan Bell / CD Freaks.com:

IP address not legal evidence identifying file sharers — mrdataNY used our news submit to tell us: "I never could see how RIAA could prove who within IP address could be proved to have done "the deed"." — For years, the RIAA has claimed that having the IP address of a computer …

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Instant msg-ing messes with grammar? As if! lol! — Teens adopting unique linguistic shorthand but not ruining syntax — With 80% of Canadian teenagers using instant messaging and adopting its unique linguistic shorthand, many teachers and parents are concerned about the medium's potential to corrupt kids' grammar.

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