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Infrastructure Linux News for Feb 26, 2000
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Linux Journal: LUIGUI--Linux/UNIX Independent Group for Usability Information (Feb 26, 2000, 20:28)
"A new Linux group has been organized to look at user interfaces
and help formulate a standard in an effort to ease the way for
Linux to move onto the desktop."
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sendmail.net: RFCs for the Rest of Us (Feb 26, 2000, 16:16)
"... there's a huge gap between Internet software engineers, who
would never confuse RFC 821 with RFC 822, and the rest of us, who
aren't necessarily even sure what "RFC" stands for."
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Red Herring: Bluetooth gleams at CeBIT (Feb 26, 2000, 05:54)
"Big-name backers of the new Bluetooth short-range wireless
standard joined in a love fest at Europe's largest technology trade
show this week, but startups and VCs say lots of cool Bluetooth
activity is going on behind the scenes."
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Newswire: The Office Linux rumour mill (Feb 26, 2000, 05:41)
"However, I can easily see a motivation for Microsoft to spread
a little disinformation about possible plans for a Linux Office
offering; namely, to convince businesses who are thinking of using
Linux in some circumstances that it's still wise to invest heavily
in Office on other PCs. And in fact, the company has a fairly
unhealthy history of doing just that."
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LoudCloud Sets Up Shop (Feb 26, 2000, 04:50)
"Internet guru Marc Andreessen created a buzz last September
when he abruptly quit his post as America Online Inc.'s (AOL) chief
technology officer..."
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ZDNet: Linux finds another buddy: Novell (Feb 26, 2000, 02:22)
"Novell's endorsement will add more enterprise legitimacy to
Linux by providing the open-source platform with a full-scale
enterprise directory service for the first time."
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CNET News.com: Harvard professor mutes antitrust skepticism (Feb 26, 2000, 01:02)
"Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig today downplayed a
news story that indicated he had doubts Microsoft should be broken
up."
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CNET News.com: Linux-seller Caldera Systems sets IPO price (Feb 26, 2000, 00:48)
"Caldera Systems is... reserving up to 10 percent of the shares
being offered in the IPO... to include non-U.S. programmers who
haven't been able to participate in past IPOs."
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ComputerWorld: SCO welcomes Linux competition (Feb 26, 2000, 00:08)
"SCO, as Mark Twain once said, claims that the news of its death
is greatly exaggerated. Computerworld recently interviewed SCO
President Doug Michels and Mike Orr, senior vice president of
worldwide marketing."
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