The :CueCat is a classic example of a broken business model. One can no longer (if, indeed, one ever could) put out a piece of hardware with the expectation that people will not seek to improve its operation with new software. [Linux Weekly News] http://lwn.net/2000/0914/
Digital Convergence responds to the flak that they've taken after demanding that several developers take drivers offline that work with their "CueCat" barcode reader. [Slashdot] http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/05/0548211.shtml
If you build it, someone will inevitably hack it. In the computer business, most manufacturers object when hordes of spotty teenagers tinker with their products. [Wired] http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,39139,00.html
Forbes magazine last week shipped its 810,000 subscribers a new computer gadget it hopes will turn its pages into a new form of hyperlink to the Internet, as part of an experiment aimed at bridging the divide between old and new media. [Washington Post] http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51440-2000Aug30.html
Thanks to a (previously) little-known company called "Digital Convergence," we now have our latest attack on the right to program. [Linux Weekly News] http://lwn.net/2000/0907/
The pam_cuecat module reads decoded bar codes from /dev/scanners/cuecat, looks up the username:barcode_type:barcode line in /etc/cuecatpasswd, and returns whether or not this user has been authenticated. http://pam-cuecat.sourceforge.net/
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