Finally a piece of news, even 2 that can go on here!! I'm so excited!! So the news.....

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| Google WebM Calls "Open Source" Into Question                                                |
|   from the branding-is-everything dept.                                                      |
|   posted by Soulskill on Friday May 28, @16:33 (Open Source)                                 |
|   https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/05/28/2014200/Google-WebM-Calls-Open-Source-Into-Questio|
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[0]snydeq writes "As open source becomes mainstream, vendors are under
pressure to market their offerings using the 'open source' brand to the
highest degree possible — a trend that may [1]eventually degrade the
meaning of 'open source' as we know it, Savio Rodrigues writes. Witness
WebM, which Google has positioned as an open alternative to H.264. After
examining the software license, some in the open source community have
[2]questioned whether WebM should be classified as open source software.
Google did not use an OSI-approved license for WebM, meaning that, at
least in theory, WebM cannot be considered open source under the OSD —
the 'gold standard' by which many government and business open source
policies are defined. Moreover, when prodded for OSI review, Google
required that the OSI agree to '[3]changes to how OSI does licenses' as a
precursor to submitting a license for OSI review and approval. 'When
Google, one of the largest supporters of open source, goes out and
purposefully circumvents the OSI, what signal does this send to other
vendors? How important is using an OSI-approved license likely to be in
the future if other vendors follow Google's lead?'" An anonymous reader
adds: "It turns out that libvpx, Google's VP8 library, [4]isn't
compatible with the GPLv2. Google is apparently aware of the problem and
working on a solution.

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Links:
   0. http://www.infoworld.com/
   1. http://infoworld.com/d/open-source/googles-webm-license-could-undermine-the-meaning-open-source-308
   2. http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2973
   3. http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:1019:dphgapeaeaahenjiboco
   4. http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-May/075102.html

I thought that it was interesting that the rules for what is Open Source are being changed. I wonder if this benefits someone?

CERT Releases Basic Fuzzing Framework                                                        |
|   from the this-field-cannot-be-left-blank dept.                                             |
|   posted by timothy on Thursday May 27, @20:53 (Security)                                    |
|   https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/05/28/009220/CERT-Releases-Basic-Fuzzing-Framework        |
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infoLaw passes along this excerpt from Threatpost: "Carnegie Mellon
University's [0]Computer Emergency Response Team has released a new
[1]fuzzing framework to help identify and eliminate security
vulnerabilities from software products. The Basic Fuzzing Framework (BFF)
is described as a simplified version of automated dumb fuzzing. It
includes a Linux virtual machine that has been optimized for fuzz testing
and a set of scripts to implement a software test."

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Links:
   0. http://www.cert.org/
   1. http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/cert-releases-basic-fuzzing-framework-052710

I'm not that computer literate, so I'm still thinking on this one. I like the idea of making sure that the computer doesn't have threats that can get to it, but I'm a little wary about how all of this is happening. hmmm....so much to think about. Have a happy & safe Memorial Day Weekend.