[newsforge daily] March 25, 2003

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March 25, 2003

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New Word-compatible Linux word processor beta available for free download http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/137236

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The press release begins, "What does Linux need to succeed on the desktop? A fully Microsoft-compatible office suite, most people would say. TextMaker for Linux, the word processor from German software vendor SoftMaker, might very well be the first building block towards this goal."

Open Source in Government Conference Wrapup http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/1130206

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The Open Standards/Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU conference held in Washington DC March 17 - 19 was attended by nearly 500 people, not counting speakers. Microsoft representatives made a presentation about their Shared Source program, and that drew a handful of protesters, but both Microsoft and the protestors were minor sideshows that had little to do with the "meat" of ...

'Lock in Software,' not 'Proprietary Software' http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/18/1230223

• By Brendan Scott - In July last year I wrote a paper which argued that the total cost of ownership of free software would, in the long run, always be lower than that of equivalent software created under different models. One of the problems I grappled with when writing that paper was how to name those different models. At the time I adopted a term which appeared to be used widely, that of “proprietary software”. I now ...

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Shawn Gordon of theKompany.com branches into music http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/0221207

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    Anonymous Reader writes "Southern California's Shawn Gordon, founder of     theKompany.com, is seeking to do with the recording industry what he     has done with software: bring together the best of the free and the     best of the commercial, with the result providing something for     everyone."

Ark Linux H20: Simple and (Nearly) Complete http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/0218257

    Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews reviews the latest version of Ark     Linux, the offspring of Bernhard "Bero" Rosenkraenzer, a former Red Hat     employee and KDE hacker."

Open source making headway in Texas government http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/0215205

    Joe Barr writes "In the war between proprietary and free/open-source     software in state and local government over the past two years, Texas     has established itself as ground zero. Texas Senate Bill 1579, for     example, which seeks to ensure that free/open-source software is given     a level playing field when competing with proprietary products in state     agencies, was deemed important enough to recently get posted by     Slashdot. This week, I'm reporting ...

Why should software be free?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/0211238

    Anonymous Reader writes "Linuxlookup.com has a pretty good article up     on free software, here's a sniplet:

Microsoft Asks Colleges to Teach Hacking http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1849245

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     Microsoft is working with a number of universities in several     countries to set up courses that teach students how to write secure     code, the company said Friday. The University of Leeds in England is     the first to announce such a course.

Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Review
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1846210

    Gentu writes "OSNews features the first review of Yellow Dog Linux     found on the net. The article goes through installation, appearance and     more."

Linux Enhances Shakespeare
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1741208

    Opening in Norwich UK this week and subsequently visiting Cambridge is     makb3th from theatre company pirateutopia.org. The show is very much     Linux-powered using aalib, XDirectFB, VLC and more to set the piece (an     adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth) on an off-shore data haven.

GMOME, KDE Developers' Open Statement on XFree86 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1726254

     We acknowledge the dedication of the XFree86 project in providing us a     free and innovative implementation of the X11 industry standard,     something we benefit from on a daily basis. Therefore, we want to share     our joint point of view with the community.

A Warped View of Monopoly
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1645233

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    NZheretic writes "A commentary by Joe McKendrick at ENT Magazine on     Bill Gates, OS/2, Linux and Monopoly includes "ENTs own survey of 800     Windows enterprise sites found that 37 percent of enterprise sites are     running Linux on servers. Plus, Linux even appears to be gaining a     foothold in Microsofts ancestral homeland -- the desktop. The survey     finds that 25 percent of the sites surveyed have Linux running on     client machines. Just 18 percent run ...

Windows XP Desktop GUI available for Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1644223

     XPde a desktop environment (XPde) and a window manager(XPwm) is     available for Linux. It tries to recreate the Windows XP interface.     XPde is another interesting attempt to make Linux more approachable for     "mainstream" computer users who are familiar to the Micrsoft Windows     environment.                                                             

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