[newsforge daily] August 23, 2003

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August 23, 2003

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  NewsForge Reports

Taking steps toward open idea development http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/20/140213

• by Henrik Nilsen Omma - In an article here on NewsForge, Jordi Carrasco-Munoz presented a scheme for pooling ideas. Following an open development model, several of us have now started adding to and improving it. I really like the idea of an information bank, and plan to support it. I have a few concrete suggestions, and I've registered a domain name to get us started.

An Open Letter to Darl McBride
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1746248

• by Eric S. Raymond - Mr. McBride: Late yesterday I learned that you have charged that your company is the victim of an insidious conspiracy masterminded by IBM. You have urged the press and public to believe that the Open Source Initiative and the Free Software Foundation and Red Hat and Novell and various Linux enthusiasts are up in arms not because of beliefs or interests of their own, but because little gray men from Armonk have put them up ...

Second Oregon Open Source bill: a report http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/052224

• by Ken Barber - Salem, Oregon, August 21 - Today was a big day in Oregon. President Bush flew in to promote his Healthy Forests Initiative, and had to make a detour because of a forest fire. And the state Senate Rules Committee held a hearing for the second Oregon Open Source bill, SB 941.

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Editor's Note: What Is SuSE Waiting For? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/0426232

    Since everyone has a theory on why SCO is doing what they are doing, I     will instead talk about something else that has been weighing on my     mind for the past few weeks. - SuSE.

   IBM dismisses OpenOffice as child's play http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/2231259

     IBM claims to have put more than $1 billion behind open source     software, but the company is failing to pay even a modest amount of lip     service to one of free software's most needed products.

   Brussels to promote open source
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/193209

     Europe's public sector is to get a new official information service     encouraging the use of open source technology.

The Internet is scheduled to end... right now! http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1859219

    This is being posted at 2:59 US EDT, one minute before the annoying     sobig.f virus is supposed to start filling infected Windows users'     machines with massive quantities of (gasp) Unknown Software. If you are     reading this, obviously the Internet didn't end, but some mainstream     media and antivirus companies sure have pushed the alarm(ist) button on     this one, haven't they?

A visual tour of OGSA : Grid Computing
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1828204

    Anonymous Reader writes "The goal: diverse resources that interoperate.     To get there, grids must be built on standard interfaces and protocols,     and the Open Grid Services Architecture maps the path. In this article,     we lay out the components of OGSA and explain their significance. The     Globus Toolkit 3 is the first major implementation of the standard;     others are under development."

   IBM lays off 15,000, HP 1300
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1719245

     Veteran IBM-watchers know how testing it is to read one of the     company's financial statements. In the early days of the cold war,     Churchill described the Soviet Union as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery     inside an enigma". But compared to earnings releases from companies     such as Apple and Sun - who provide terse and lucid declarations - you     can be forgiven for thinking of IBM's announcements as a cloud wrapped     in a fog containing a temporary ...

MontaVista Says SCO Not A Threat to Embedded Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1639207

     Embedded Linux specialist MontaVista Software Thursday, looking to     assure embedded Linux customers that they have little to worry about     from questions about Linux's legal status, joined the growing list of     Linux distribution firms rebutting the claims of SCO Group that Linux     is an unauthorized derivation of its Unix intellectual property.

Motorola unveils first Linux smartphone
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1618223

     The mobile-phone maker has put its first Linux-powered handset on the     market, launching an ambitious strategy of competition with Symbian and     Microsoft.

   Thailand's cheap PCs 'force Microsoft's hand' http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1542238

     A Gartner analyst is predicting Microsoft's prices in developing     countries will be cut in half within a year

SCO CEO says IBM behind open source attacks http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/159223

     IBM has been quietly stage-managing the open source community's     response to The SCO Group's $3 billion lawsuit over Big Blue's     contributions to the Linux source code, SCO's CEO Darl McBride said in     an interview at his company's SCO Forum user conference in Las Vegas     this week.                                                             

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