Leading items and editorials: The German Government voices
support for Open Source, Protection from the Government and June
Netcraft Survey available.
“The German Government voices support for Open Source. Siegmar
Mosdorf, German Secretary of State in the Federal Ministry for
Economy and Technology, voiced his government’s support for Open
Source at last week’s LinuxTag conference. “”I am convinced that
open source development can form the European base model in the
information age….”
“Protection from the Government. It is deliciously ironic that,
just as governments, no matter their ideological stances, are
coming to see free/open source software as a necessity, others are
working to use it to protect themselves from governments. We’ve
spoken in the past about Gnutella and Freenet, which help protect
the anonymity and freedom from censorship that has been at least
the perceived hallmark of the Internet since its
conception….”
“June Netcraft Survey available. This months Netcraft Web Server
Survey is up and running. They’ve include a comment on why there
appeared to be a slight decrease in Apache usage in May. “Apache
gained well over a million sites from the May survey, and sailed
past the 10 million sites threshold. Part of the strength of the
gain came as a result of a depression in the May survey when sites
at the large German hosting company xlink.net failed to
respond.”