News Linux News for Sep 11, 2004:

CNN/Money: Microsoft IS Worried About Linux
(2004-09-11 01:00:51)
"Folks, this is news. Microsoft is acknowledging the Linux threat. Really acknowledging it..." Another pundit's view of Microsoft's most recent SEC filing.

NewsForge: How to Fight Software Patents--Singly and Together
(2004-09-11 03:00:05)
Richard Stallman chimes in on patents: "Software patents are the software project equivalent of land mines: Each design decision carries a risk of stepping on a patent, which can destroy your project..."

Linux Journal: Linux in Government: Neglecting the Community, a Commentary
(2004-09-11 05:00:18)
"Linux vendors get failing grades in Linux community relations..."

DesktopOS: Two Years Before the Prompt: A Linux Odyssey
(2004-09-11 09:00:06)
"I made the plunge into Linux at the start of 1993 under the assumption that things had improved enough that I could get around Linux without the command prompt at all, or at least with minimal exposure to it..."

SearchEnterpriseLinux: 'Cat' Is Where It's At
(2004-09-11 11:00:00)
"You may not have a furry animal at home purring atop your monitor, but here's an instance where you might want to keep a cat near your computer..."

FedoraNEWS: HOWTO: Enhancing Apache with mod_security
(2004-09-11 13:00:14)
"...[T]oday we are focusing in how we can enhance our site's security against attacks/exploits, being those SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting and other niceties that people tend to do from time to time..."

ONLamp: Collaborative Document Editing with svk
(2004-09-11 14:30:58)
"This article tries to map this problem to parallel development, which version control systems solve with the branch and merge model. You will also see how svk helps you maintain translated documents easily..."

Wired: U.S. Open Puts Serve in Server
(2004-09-11 16:00:43)
"Winding your way beneath the stands of Louis Armstrong Stadium at the U.S. Tennis Association's National Tennis Center, you'll eventually come to a fluorescent-lit room dubbed 'mission control' by IBM staff..."

TechCentral: Open, Closed: Novell's 'Mixed Source' Software
(2004-09-11 17:30:45)
"There's open source software (OSS), there's what Novell Inc chief technology officer Alan Nugent calls 'closed source'--meaning proprietary--software, and then there's Novell's own 'mixed-source' software.

ServerWatch: Enterprise Unix Roundup--Open Source Bucks the Herd
(2004-09-11 19:00:59)
"A favored sub-genre of Linux news story is the 'Government of fill in the blank is requiring its agencies to consider open source software' narrative..."

ONLamp: On Becoming an Open Source Person
(2004-09-11 21:00:33)
"About a year ago, Scott McNealy said something that struck me as subtly wrong. I didn't think much about it at the time..."

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