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Morning Coffee: Myth Busting

Morning Coffee: Myth Busting
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May 28, 2012
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Morning Coffee: Myth Busting

Morning Coffee: Myth Busting

Maybe you’re lucky, and the winds of technology change always blow the smoke in somebody else’s eyes. Maybe you’re smart, and you know where to find out which way the winds are blowing.


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Apple makes hay pitching its OS X as more secure than Windows. Apple’s strongest point is the default configuration of OS X with limited User rather than Administrator privileges. Even so, growing reports of


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Another popular myth is that open-source software is written by people with a political agenda against commercial technology providers. That perception is challenged by the pragm


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A third myth is that the bubble has burst for Internet advertising, and that no one has really figured out how to sell Net ads that actually deliver an audience worth having.


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If you need to catch up on your Morning Coffee, visit the archive of these eWEEK.com overviews at go.eweek.com/morningcoffee. To get the latest brain dumps from eWEEK’s staf

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