[newsforge daily] August 24, 2003

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August 24, 2003

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Microsoft seeks law to retroactively ban Finnish immigration http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/1726241

• by David "cdlu" Graham - In his latest attempt to quell the Linux uprising, Microsoft mastermind Bill Gates has pledged over $2,500,000.00 to George Bush's 2004 election campaign if he passes a law that bans anyone born in Finland from working in the United States, and condemns all existing Finnish natives living in the US to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba's Camp X-ray, where they are to be collectively punished for the un-American ways of one ...

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 ...

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U.S. Army Brings Internet to Saddam's Hometown http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/2242231

    TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - The U.S. army opened the first unrestricted     Internet access in Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit Saturday in a     bid to convince skeptical Iraqis their occupation will bring tangible     benefits.

Dissection of the SCO Vegas presentation http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1428254

    Anonymous Reader writes "I would like to take a moment to bring to your     attention some of the glaring problems with SCO's recent presentation     in Las Vegas. Their case has always been thin and their story up until     this point has been anything but straight and to the point. This is an     attempt to point out some of the more obvious flaws."

Dennis Ritchie: I wrote the SCO code
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1426242

    Anonymous Reader writes "Dennis Ritchie has acknowledged he with Ken     Thompson wrote the code cited as "proof" by SCO. This seems to fit     perfectly with Bruce Perens' Analysis of SCO's Las Vegas Slide Show,     and undermine Blake Stowell's claim "At this point it's going to be his     word against ours"."

WeLoveTheSCOInformationMinister.org
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1448237

    Sure, everyone and their brother by now has noticed the striking     similarity of SCOfflaw CEO Darl McBride to a certain other individual     in the public relations field, generally more well-known but no less     reality-challenged. But like his counterpart, "Baghdad McBride" proves     himself beyond parody every time he opens his mouth, cramming both feet     farther and further in, and until he eventually implodes will no doubt     continue to offer up new pearls ...

Linux shows security superiority to Windows http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1436244

    Nine years ago this month, a student from the University of Helsinki in     Finland released upon the world a piece of software code that would go     on to revolutionize the way people think of computer software. When     Linus Torvalds began working on his now famous Linux kernel in 1991,     the idea of "free software" was unheard of. Today, Linux is installed     on millions of PCs and is being embraced by hobbyists and professionals     alike. Thanks to companies ...

IBM adds multithreading to Power 5
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1433233

    Building on the technology it introduced with its Power 4 processor,     IBM last week announced it will incorporate simultaneous multithreading     into its upcoming 64-bit Power 5 processor. With its Power 4 chip, IBM     was able to significantly improve performance by incorporating two     microprocessor cores on the same dye. The Power 5 also packs two cores     on a dye, but each chip will be able to handle two threads     simultaneously, increasing performance ...

No purchase order required
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1225238

    One of the best features of Free Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS) is     that no purchase orders are required to test or deploy the software.     You may, however, need a big fat pipe to the Internet to download some     of the stuff. A quick list of some software that companies may find     useful:

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.                                                             

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