News Linux News for Aug 03, 2004:

NewsForge: A Fresh--And Optimistic--Take on Patents and Open Source
(2004-08-03 01:00:20)
"Dan Ravicher, President, Executive Director, and Founder of the Public Patent Foundation, believes there are plenty of ways open source developers, advocates, and users can fight against innovation-hindering software patents..."

CNET News: Start-up to Make iTunes Sing on Linux
(2004-08-03 02:30:52)
"Although iTunes and Linux have been pursuing solo careers, one small software maker hopes to get them to make music together..."

eWeek: Analysts: Sun President's Novell Talk 'Totally Crazy'
(2004-08-03 03:15:20)
"'It's totally crazy for him to be making a comment like that,' said Anne Thomas Manes, vice president and research director for the Burton Group and a former Sun software executive..."

ChannelZone: SCO's Resellers Focus on Unix
(2004-08-03 04:00:24)
"As SCO opens SCOForum, its annual trade show, reseller partners appear to want to know about what SCO will be doing with its SCO's Unix products, not necessarily with its current Linux litigation..."

LWN: Patch: Linux 2.4.27-rc4
(2004-08-03 05:30:57)
"It includes a dozen of USB fixes, JFS update, IA64 fixes, networking update, amongst others..."

IT Manager's Journal: SCO Suits Having a Chilling Effect on Open Source in Outsourcing
(2004-08-03 09:00:54)
"The copyright case that the SCO Group filed against IBM last year appears to have had one unanticipated effect outside of the realm of intellectual property..."

ZDNet: Breaking the Rules With Open Source
(2004-08-03 11:00:11)
LinuxWorld Expo: "In the space of five months, John Roberts started a software company and delivered its first product to thousands of potential customers--a process that could easily have taken years. His secret? Open-source development..."

DesktopOS: The View from Mepis 2004-05-b01
(2004-08-03 13:00:23)
"This is my evaluation of Mepis 2004-05-b01 after a month with it on my system..."

Silicon.com: 'No Virus' Linux PCs Break Into Supermarkets
(2004-08-03 13:45:39)
"France's number one supermarket chain, Carrefour, has launched a pilot project to sell PCs that come equipped with an OS not often sold by the retail big boys--Mandrake Linux..."

Notes From The Show: Day .5, An Exercise in Transitions
(2004-08-03 14:15:59)
LinuxWorld Expo: In which your editor meets and greets tired and hot people from Red Hat and the media.

OSNews: Red Hat Delivers Open Source Application Server
(2004-08-03 14:30:33)
"Red Hat delivers Open Source Application Server with support from strategic partners: Interoperable application server is designed to integrate seamlessly with leading vendors' solutions..."

Techworld: Big Bug Fix for Linux a Month in Coming
(2004-08-03 15:15:34)
"Linux vendors are urging users to patch a serious bug in the graphical user interface of the popular Mplayer media player application, which could allow a remote attacker to execute malicious code on a Linux or Unix system..."

Techworld: Linux is Mine, All Mine, Cackles Distracted SCO Head
(2004-08-03 16:00:43)
"Darl McBride has no doubt he is right. It's just everybody else that is the problem..."

Forbes: Linux Scare Tactics
(2004-08-03 16:45:05)
"But wait. The 'analysis' was commissioned by a New York-based outfit called Open Source Risk Management that is hawking insurance to protect Linux users against lawsuits..."

Yahoo!/Ziff Davis: Oracle's Rocha: Linux Kernel Ready to Rock Databases
(2004-08-03 17:30:49)
LinuxWorld Expo: "Oracle executive vice president Mike Rocha will have a lot to brag about when he gets up to give his LinuxWorld keynote Tuesday in San Francisco..."

internetnews.com: IBM Inks Another Defense Deal with DoD
(2004-08-03 18:15:26)
LinuxWorld Expo: "For the second straight week, IBM has announced a major Linux supercomputing deal with the U.S. Department of Defense..."

CNET News: Mozilla Puts Bounty on Bugs
(2004-08-03 19:00:47)
"A string of high-profile flaws in browser software prompted the Mozilla Foundation to announce on Monday that it would offer $500 for every serious bug found by security researchers..."

LinuxWorld: Who'll Buy Novell First, Sun or IBM?
(2004-08-03 20:30:37)
LinuxWorld Expo: "Even before LinuxWorld Conference and Expo opens here today in San Francisco, two of the main players, Sun Microsystems and Novell, have already hit the headlines..."

eWeek: Business Ties Between SCO, HP Stay Strong
(2004-08-03 22:00:33)
"The SCO Group, which can count few large companies in the IT industry as its friend, continues to maintain a very strong working relationship with Hewlett-Packard Co..."

Yahoo!/Forbes: This Is War
(2004-08-03 23:30:41)
"Aventis has tied together groups of computers running not Microsoft's operating system but the freely available Linux. These high-performance clusters can analyze proteins at blazing speeds. 'That's great for Linux,' Taylor said cheerily, at the time..."

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