[newsforge daily] September 07, 2003

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September 07, 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's patent loss rattles tech community http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/1311253

    A.Guru prasath writes "Companies with products that work on the     Internet are slowly waking up to the broad implications of a recent     judgement against software behemoth Microsoft Corp. in a patent     infringement case. The $520 million award to Eolas Technologies Inc. of     Chicago and the University of California (UC) stemmed from a 1999     lawsuit in which Eolas and UC charged Microsoft with infringing on a     1998 patent owned by the university and ...

Microsoft and Be, Inc. reach agreement to settle lawsuit http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/1310249

    Anonymous Reader writes "Remember the Be lawsuit against Microsoft? The     lawsuit alleged that Microsoft harmed Be through a series of illegal     exclusionary and anticompetitive acts designed to maintain its monopoly     in the Intel-compatible PC OS market and created exclusive dealing     arrangements with PC OEMs prohibiting the sale of PCs with multiple     preinstalled operating systems. Pretty much what MS does today to Linux     vendors! Be and MS announced ...

Speculation on a Microsoft strategy to co-opt Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/138200

    pbrittan writes "I have recently posted two entries in my blog     exploring how Microsoft might be able to turn the tables on Java and     co-opt Linux: .NET on Linux, .NET on Linux, part 2 - "It's the API,     stupid""

Linux for Windows administrators with Delixus 8.0 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/133246

    MadPenguin writes "Delixus 8.0 makes administering a Linux server     almost seamless to the Windows environment most people are used to.     Even though I would not be inclined to use the software, I would     recommend it to clients who would like to make the switch to Linux but     do not have the appropriate amount of 'Linux knowledge' in-house, or     who simply lack the budget to acquire that knowledge through training     or hiring capable staff."

openMosix 2.4.22-1 released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/130258

    Bruce Knox, openMosix Project writes "The openMosix Project has     announced the release of openMosix version 2.4.22-1. This 2.4.22-1     release is the port to the 2.4.22 Linux kernel of the stable and     reliable openMosix 2.4.21-1. RPMs and Source files can be downloaded     from the files section of our website. CVS files are available now.     openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image (SSI)     clustering that allows building a cluster from ...

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 ...                                                             

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