[newsforge daily] September 06, 2003

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September 06, 2003

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Politics in Free Software
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1930234

• by Tom Chance - When he added a line crediting the United States Army to four of his applications, Neil Stevens created a small storm in the KDE community; politics, people said, was not to interfere with KDE, and his credit was removed. However, when the KDE Web site took part in the online protest against software patents in Europe, people said politics was important to KDE. So what role does politics play in KDE, and in Free Software in ...

OpenOffice trails MS Office in vulnerabilities http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1414247

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - This week Microsoft Office once again affirmed its leadership in the office software world by releasing news of not one, two, or three, but five security holes. Meanwhile, OpenOffice.org, the primary open source competitor to MS Office, has no vulnerabilities to report. And OpenOffice developers say they have no plans to introduce Microsoft-competitive vulnerabilities, even though most PC users obviously consider ...

Linux Advisory Watch - September 5th 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1143203

• by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for sendmail, gdm, node, pam_smb, vmware, horde, phpwebsite, eroaster, mindi, gallery, atari800, sendmail, and up2date. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Gentoo, Red Hat, and Turbo Linux.

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Microsoft steps up Linux assault with benchmark claim http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1531208

    OwlWhacker writes "Microsoft has released file and web server benchmark     results which claim to show that Linux on the mainframe lags behind     Windows 2003 on Intel systems in a price-performance comparison."

SCO in fight with self
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1534234

    Anonymous Reader writes "Since at least August, SCO have been floating     the idea of sending invoices to Linux users. It's even been reported,     seemingly incorrectly, back in August, that SCO was beginning to send     invoices. The invoice story has been taken up with a vengence in the     last few days, for example, here, here and here. Now SCO in Australia     says the invoicing plan doesn't "ring true" and contradicts recent very     strategy discussions. ...

Germans Have It Right, Standing Up to SCO! http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1837213

    Jim Musser writes "SCO fined for Linux claims." The SCO Group Inc. has     been fined $10,800 for violating a German court's ruling that SCO must     cease claiming that the Linux source code violates its intellectual     property, the Lindon, Utah, company confirmed on Monday.

The Linux Test Project ltp-20030905 Released http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1835214

    Robbie Williamson writes "The Linux Test Project test suite has been     released. The latest version of the testsuite contains 2000+ tests for     the Linux OS. Our web site also contains other information such as:     test results, a Linux test tools matrix, an area for keeping up with     fixes for known blocking problems in the 2.5/2.6 kernel releases,     technical papers and HowTos on Linux testing, and a code coverage     analysis tool.

UNDP releases OS primer for public review http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1811221

    An anonymous coward writes "The UNDP is putting out a open source     primer draft for public review for three weeks before the document is     sent for publication and distribution through UNDP communication     channels. After initial publication, the primer will be maintained as a     live document, updated to reflect recent changes. Feedback on this     primer is being solicited. Further details can be found here. A     previous paper on FOSS and governments, based ...

School switches to linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/175250

    Anonymous Reader writes "An article in T.H.E. Journal by a school tech     administrator talks about his experiences making the switch from     Windows and Microsoft apps to Linux and Open Source. He talks about     what motivated him to do it and the advantages the school gained from     the initiative, as well as the problems encountered."

Microsoft Palladium Threat Just Around The Corner http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1529235

    OwlWhacker writes "The spectrum of Palladium/TCPA and of all its     negative consequences is finally appearing on the horizon with all of     its ugliness."

Rilke CMS 0.95 beta released!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/158226

    Jay Sheth writes "I am happy to announce the release of Rilke CMS 0.95     beta, after several months of hard work!

SciTech SNAP Graphics for Linux Final Released http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/147258

    Anonymous Reader writes "After a few months in beta, SciTech Software     has just released the final version of their main product, SciTech SNAP     Graphics, for Linux. The 2D drivers are reportedly much faster than the     equivelants found on the default XFree86 release. There is also a     review by the LinuxFormat magazine about the project. Overall, it is     something that is worth checking out if you are into additional speed     and feature-set, too bad ...

SCO evidence falls flat in Sydney
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/143234

    Anonymous Reader writes "Businesses should move forward with their     adoption of open source, despite fears that they may be targeted by SCO     for breach of copyright, industry representatives said at a recent Unix     conference. Greg Lehey, president of the Australian Unix and Open     Systems User Group (AUUG), speaking in the "Who Owns Unix?" panel     discussion at the AUUG conference in Sydney yesterday, said that he     hadn't seen "even the slightest ...                                                             

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