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IE8 Beta Testers wanted, only great people need apply Andy

IE8 Beta Testers wanted, only great people need apply
Andy Zeigler is the Program Manager for Reliability and Privacy on the Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 team. Now there’s a job and a half, it has to be said. Writing on the official IEBlog he says “For Internet Explorer, reliability means that the browser should always start quickly, perform well, connect to the Internet, and show Web sites without crashing or hanging. Most users want their browser to work, recover smoothly after a crash, and display the Web correctly. Users are not as concerned with what causes the problem, whether that be a poorly functioning add-on or poorly performing…

Open Source licenses get copyright law protection
According to ChannelWeb a federal judge sitting in the US Court of Appeals has ruled that open source software licenses are legal under copyright law. This is a complete u-turn on a previous ruling which had thrown the not so small matter of open source licensing into something of a legal quagmire. The case appears to have arisen out of a dispute, of all things, over the legality of an open source license for model railway control software after a developer gave another an ‘artistic license’ and that other then used it while developing a competing product. Earlier, a court had decided that…