[newsforge daily] August 28, 2003

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August 28, 2003

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OpenLindows.com: wherefore art thou?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1258238

• by Joe Barr - I ran across a curious website recently: OpenLindows.com. The name alone intrigued me. It gave rise to speculation about a weird mix of free-as-in-beer and free-as-in-speech alternative to the $49/year Click-N-Run software subscription offered by LindowsOS, the most Windows-like/proprietary Linux distribution out there. This is a report on what I found, and perhaps even more importantly, what I didn't. Updated: originally I ...

Bayonne bridges open source, telecom
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1338217

• by Anne Donker - The telecom market is traditionally so steeped in proprietary systems that it makes Microsoft seem like a fraternity for free software fanatics. David Sugar is on a quest to disrupt that status quo. Sugar is development leader for GNU Bayonne, a telecommunications server project licensed under the GPL. To support the project, Sugar founded Open Source Telecom Corp. (OST), a profitable business selling products and services ...

Solving the payment problem for open source and P2P file sharing http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/143247

• by Matt Asay - The software and entertainment industries have a problem, but it's not the problem they think it is. Both believe they have intellectual property problems. In the case of software, large software vendors are struggling to figure out how to keep their IP and associated revenues from being cannibalized by open source software. Record labels and movie studios, for their part, believe that peer-to-peer piracy is destroying their ...

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   Thailand's cheap PCs 'force Microsoft's hand' http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/2244243

    gulker writes "Microsoft declined to participate in Thailand's program     to offer $250 computers to citizens (whose average income is $7,000)     because it didn't want to lower the price of XP and Office. After 1     million of the machines were purchased, with Linux as the OS, MS has     relented and will now offer XP home and the standard Office suite for     $40, down from $500."

Microsoft's Friendly Foes?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1850202

    BigBlueLinux.org writes "Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is certainly eager to     do battle with proprietors of the Linux operating system, but is it     ready to take on its hardware partners in the server space? It is a     question that has to be asked. Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) , Hewlett-Packard,     IBM (NYSE: IBM) and others are increasing platform support for Linux     server software and, in some instances, have more boxes that run Linux     than run Windows."

Lies, damn lies, and TPC cost reports
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1743238

    Recently the Transaction Processing Performance Council listed a Sun     480 as the leader on the 100GB TPC/H benchmark. At that point the Sun     machine running at 1.05GHz was shown narrowly beating a pair of 2.0 GHz     Xeon servers from HP and Dell on both price and performance. Last week     a new HP result using the 2.8GHz Xeon leapfrogged the Sun machine to     re-take the lead.

Alston dismisses call for open source procurement guidelines http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1644244

    Anonymous Reader writes "Guidelines proposed by the Australian Unix     Users Group (AUUG) promoting a "level playing field" between open     source and proprietary software within government departments are     unnecessary, according to the Department of Communications, Information     Technology and the Arts. ... While agreeing with AUUG?s proposal that     software be purchased on its merits, a spokesperson for the     department's Minister, Senator Richard Alston, ...

Sendmail vulnerable to DoS attacks
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1714255

    Michael S. Mimoso writes "Popular open-source mail agent Sendmail     contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability that could cause a system     to crash. Also, Linux distributor Turbolinux has warned of flaws in     GNOME and Perl."

Court says no free speech on trade secrets http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1542228

    In a case that pitted the U.S. and California constitutions against the     state's trade secret law, the California Supreme Court ruled this week     that it is not a violation of free speech rights to ban the publication     of computer code that can be used to copy DVDs.

Embedded Linux Changes Growth Path
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1537227

     While the commercial use of Linux in the embedded market continues to     grow, VDC has reduced its forecast through 2007.

Linux on the desktop: The whole story
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1533236

    Before migrating your desktop computers to Linux, take inventory of     your business applications and compare Linux to Windows in terms of     total cost of ownership.

Turbolinux Joins OSDL
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1528234

    The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium of leading     technology companies dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux,     today announced that Turbolinux, a leading developer of Linux for Asian     markets, has joined the Lab as its newest member.

Fact or FUD? Attorney offers views on SCO allegations http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1518248

    Michael S. Mimoso writes "Scott Nathan, an attorney who specializes in     technology-related matters, answers questions from IT administrators     regarding the SCO Group's legal action against Linux."                                                             

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