LinuxUser issue 10 is now available for download in PDF format at: http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/articles/issue10/index.html Contents include: Editorial 63k While legislative time is spent on Andrew Millar's bill to increase the penalty for unauthorised copying to ten years, says Trevor Parsons, lucrative public sector awards are tying us further into proprietary software News 113k The UK government moves on patents, IBM unveils Linux-enabled iSeries, new evidence released on Linux adoption in Germany, Progeny Linux sugars Debian's pill, plus the latest from the fast-growing Smoothwall project Cover feature - Money to burn? 116k When budgets are tight, the low price tag of Linux looks tempting. But factor in issues of reliability, flexibility, maintenance, interoperability and conformance to standards, says Richard Hillesley, and its biggest financial advantages look to be long-term Conference report - CODE 100k Cambridge may be a beneficiary of huge investment by Microsoft, which describes open source as an intellectual property killer, but it nevertheless recently played host to CODE, an international conference grappling with the impact of the free software meme on the knowledge ecology. Trevor Parsons reports Open personalities - Bruce Perens, beyond proprietary 139k Perens led the Debian Project, defined open source, helped turn business on to Linux, and boasts credits for two Hollywood blockbusters. Now strategic adviser to computer giant Hewlett-Packard, the Toy Story technocrat is as outspoken as ever against the world of constraint Testbed - Web servers 364k Everyone and their dog might seem to be running Apache, but there are plenty of other alternatives worthy of consideration. Martin Howse puts six web servers, both large and small, through their paces All you need to know about... DNS 129k Craig Hunt, author of Linux DNS Server Administration, explains the fundamentals of the Internet's lookup systems, from the point of view of the Linux sysadmin True stories - Prime suspect 71k A Norwegian teenager wanted to watch a legally-purchased film on his Linux computer, and the software he wrote to do it brought the police knocking at his door. We tell the tale, and poke a little fun at attempts to control the code Linux at work - Artificial paradises 125k Samuel Palmer looks behind the scenes at Manchester's Dedicated Servers, which has built a highly profitable web hosting business on the amazing resource efficiencies of FreeVSD, the world's first GPL'd virtual server solution for Linux The Knowledge 53k News of soaraway earnings for skilled Linux integrators, and extra training centres for Red Hat, plus a new module from the Linux Training Materials Project covering a variety of topics in basic system analysis, installation and configuration Reviews - Products and services 152k Including another step towards the ultimate integrated environment with GNOME, the latest release of Blender's 3D magic, remote management from Caldera's Volution, a preview of the latest version of FreeBSD, and truly virtuous network monitoring from NetSaint Books 75k Casually left open on LinuxUser's coffee table this month: books on Linux for your laptop, Linux socket programming, a beginner's guide to Linux administration, an instant classic in the shape of Linux Programming Unleashed, and more... Free speech - The public's business 39k Eben Moglen returns to the pages of LinuxUser with a startling forecast: The world's largest market for computer software should soon belong overwhelmingly to free software. That looks like a remarkable statement, he admits, but it's actually an easy prediction