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News Linux News for Feb 06, 2005:
Computer Business Review: Sun Preparing Open Source Developers' Bill of Rights
(2005-02-06 01:00:35) "Sun Microsystems is writing a developers' 'bill of rights' to pacify critics of its Common Development and Distribution License..."
NewsForge: My Workstation OS: Libranet
(2005-02-06 05:00:27) "All I really want in a desktop operating system is a standard KDE desktop (not heavily modified like Mandrakelinux and Red Hat), decent packaging, and a filesystem hierarchy that makes sense..."
informIT: OpenOffice Writer vs. TextMaker: Which Linux Word Processor Should You Use?
(2005-02-06 09:00:59) "Like most people, the word processor I have the most experience with is Microsoft Word. But Linux offers two very good alternatives: OpenOffice Writer and TextMaker..."
Mad Penguin: Open Source: Spinning Straw Into Gold
(2005-02-06 11:00:26) "Rumpelstiltskin is dead. And good riddance..."
Business Standard: Startup Sees Market for Linux Offshore Support
(2005-02-06 13:00:40) "IBM's nascent Linux Competency Centre here will help Slash Support 'integrate' the work done by its regional partners in places such as Hyderabad, Cochin and Delhi..."
Groklaw: G2 et al Reply Memorandum
(2005-02-06 16:00:26) "Their argument can basically be summed up that they'd like to have their lawyer look at all the sealed documents, so they can argue about them at a hearing, one by one, if they want something unsealed..."
ONLamp: Firefox and the Impact Curve
(2005-02-06 16:45:33) "With the eventual release of Firefox; the little browser that could, the public perception of Firefox has not been typical of an Open Source project..."
ZDNet UK: Linux: The Forking Fight-Back
(2005-02-06 17:30:58) "Community developers claim the Linux Standards Base could be the perfect retort to fragmentation scare stories banded about by critics of open source..."
Groklaw: Myths About Samba
(2005-02-06 18:15:13) "I think that it is time to describe again the techniques that we actually use, and to dispel some other common myths about Samba development..." Article by Andrew Tridgell.
InfoWorld: IT's Moment of Truth
(2005-02-06 19:00:07) "It all comes down to where you focus your efforts and where you should relinquish control..."
Linux Magazine: Munich Demands Clarity
(2005-02-06 20:30:43) "The mayor of Munich, Germany, Christian Ude, recently found a creative way to focus worldwide attention on the unavoidable conflict between the current 'business as usual' patent system..."
Linux Times: Distro-Junkie settling PCLinuxOS P8
(2005-02-06 22:00:43) "I have been using a lot of different GNU/Linux distributions during the past one-and-a-half years. I started with so called 'newbie friendly' distributions such as SuSE, Mandrake or Fedora Core..."
Computerworld Australia: Linux Boom Boosts Conference
(2005-02-06 23:30:39) "The annual Linux 'geek-fest' is booming, with submissions for this year's conference three times the number required..."
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