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Statement by the European Small Business Alliance against the Software Patent Directive
The European Small Business Alliance has issued a statement against the Software Patent Directive. "If the Directive is enforced as it is considered, SME's who do not possess legal advisors will be confronted with enormous additional costs, since in the future they will have to carry out wide inquiries in matters of patents for every software-project. This does not only regard developers of software, but also computer retailer and IT-branches of enterprises of application. They will also be confronted with costs for licensing for the utilisation of external patents, additional costs for the development and costs for own patents in case enterprises should try to save themselves from the attacks of others."
Groklaw's open letter to SCO's Darl McBride
The folks over at the (always interesting and useful) Groklaw site have put together an open letter to Darl McBride, in response to his "olive branch" from a couple weeks ago. Click below to read the whole thing (and accompanying press release), or you can read the original (with comments) at groklaw.com. "Releasing software under the GPL is not the same as releasing it into the public domain. Authors retain their copyrights to software licensed under the GPL. Even when authors assign their copyrights to someone else, such as to the Free Software Foundation, the copyrights remain valid, but with the new owner. Therefore, subsequent to termination of your permissions under the GPL, you are in the unhappy position of violating the copyrights of the software authors, if you continue to distribute their software. Under copyright law, you are not allowed to distribute at all without their permission -- and they have chosen to grant that permission only by means of the GPL."
RJ Tarpley's Coffee Company Raises Over $400 for the Mozilla Foundation (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine mentions that RJ Tarpley's Coffee Company has been raising money for the Mozilla foundation by selling Mozilla brand coffees.
Commercial announcements
Century Releases Operating Environment for Smart Devices as Open Source
Century Embedded Technology has released their PIXIL Operating Environment platform as open-source. "Century Embedded Technologies, a leader in graphical application technologies for embedded Linux, today announced the release of the PIXIL™ Operating Environment (OE) platform for embedded devices running Linux to the open source community. Source code is available under both a commercial license and the open source GPL license. PIXIL OE is the foundation for Century's PIXIL suite of complete solutions for small form factor smart flatpanel devices." Thanks to Brock A. Frazier.
Announcements from Intel Developer Forum
SnapGear Inc. has announced Linux platform support for network processors based on Intel XScale(R). technology.MontaVista Software has announced that MontaVista(R) Linux(R) Professional Edition will support Intel's IXDP2401, IXDP2801 and IXDP2851 advanced development platforms.
Linux Magazine Rumania launched
Linux Magazine is now available in Rumanian. "Linux Magazin Rumania is the first Linux-oriented publication in Rumania and operates as a licensed edition of the English-language Linux Magazine, which is available in over 50 countries."
Red Hat's second quarter results
Red Hat, Inc. has sent out a press release on its second quarter results: a $240,000 profit on revenue of $29 million. The company has now sold about 26,000 Enterprise Linux subscriptions; subscription income is now worth about five times as much revenue as retail Linux sales.
Shuttle, MandrakeSoft announce XPC, Linux bundle partnership
Shuttle has announced it will ship Mandrake Linux 9.1/9.2 bundled with several XPC barebone machines: SB52G2, SB62G2, SB75G2 and SB75G2 (with i875 chipset).
Sophos acquires ActiveState
Sophos, an anti-virus company, has announced the acquisition of ActiveState. Sophos is clearly after ActiveState's anti-spam products, but the release states that ActiveState's Perl / Python / PHP / Tcl tools will continue to be developed as well. More information can be found in this message from ActiveState: "Sophos is committed to supporting and extending ActiveState's involvement in the open source community. ActiveState's programming tools, language distributions, and support services will continue to be developed, supported, and marketed under the ActiveState name, in exactly the same way they have until now."
New Books
"Even Grues Get Full" Released by O'Reilly
For those of you who wish to add a bit of comedy to your reading list, O'Reilly has released a new book from the cartoon User Friendly entitled "Even Grues Get Full".
"Wireless Hacks" Released by O'Reilly
O'Reilly has released the book "Wireless Hacks". "A neighbor orders food online while someone across the street is using voice chat to talk to relatives (for free!) in Hong Kong, all the while someone upstairs is downloading a new album from their favorite band's web site in San Francisco. The information flows all around you without you seeing or hearing a thing. Make no mistake, wireless networking is probably the second most magical technology on the planet--just behind the Internet."
Resources
Online action against Software Patents
Here are some resources to help you find out more about the Software Patent directive, and what you can do to help out.
LDP Weekly News
The September 17, 2003 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out with the latest documentation changes.
PHP Survey Results
The results from the 2003 PHP Survey have been published. "The PHP Survey data collection has been concluded Zend's PHP survey is a market snapshot of the PHP community. Over 10,000 respondents to the survey which was posted in June 2003."
An introduction to Thunderbird, part 8 (Nidelven IT)
Kay Frode's series on Thunderbird continues with part eight, which shows how to create and use newsgroup accounts. "I've got a lot of questions about when/if Thunderbird will have a newsgroup option, the answer is simple, it's already there. :) In this article i will try to show you how to set up such an account."
Upcoming Events
AMIA 2003 Program (LinuxMedNews)
Linux Med News has an announcement for the American Medical Informatics Association's 2003 Annual Symposium, which will be held in Washington, DC on November 8-12, 2003. "A search of the program for Open Source yields sixteen items. Year by year we are seeing more mention of and involvement in open source at these major events."
'Demystifying Open Source' for non-profits (OpenSector)
OpenSector has an announcement for the Demystifying Open Source Technology conference, to be held in New York City on October 8, 2003. "Join us October 8 at the Fund for the City of New York on "Demystifying Open Source Technology," a conference designed specifically to provide an introduction to open source technologies for the nonprofit community."
The PHP|Cruise
The PHP|Cruise has been announced, one free seat will be given away to people who sign up to the mailing list. "php|cruise is a five-day cruise (March 1st through March 5th, 2004) packed with over 50 hours of PHP training for beginners and professionals alike—all in the luxurious and fun atmosphere of a Caribbean cruise aboard one of the best ships of the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. "
Events: September 25 - November 20, 2003
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| September 26 - 27, 2003 | Third DZUG-Conference | Paderborn, Germany |
| October 7 - 8, 2003 | LogOn Web Days | Across Europe |
| October 8, 2003 | Demystifying Open Source Technology for non-profits | (121 Sixth Avenue)New York, NY |
| October 12 - 15, 2003 | International Lisp Conference 2003(ILC 2003) | New York, NY |
| October 14 - 16, 2003 | 10th Linux-Kongress | Saarbrücken, Germany |
| October 15 - 17, 2003 | The First Plone Conference | (Tulane University)New Orleans, Louisiana |
| October 26, 2003 October 27 - 31, 2003 | Large Installation Systems Administration Conference(LISA) | (Town & Country Resort Hotel)San Diego, CA |
| October 29 - 31, 2003 | Asian Enterprise Open Source Conference(AEOSC) | (Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Centre)Singapore |
| November 2 - 3, 2003 | International PHP Conference 2003 | (Astron Hotel Frankfurt-Mörfelden)Frankfurt, Germany |
| November 6 - 7, 2003 | HiverCon 2003 | (Davenport Hotel)Dublin, Ireland |
| November 10, 2003 | Desktop Linux Conference | (Boston University Corporate Education Center)Tyngsboro, Massachusetts |
| November 14 - 16, 2003 | Third International Ruby Conference | (Red Lion Hotel)Austin, Texas |
| November 16 - 19, 2003 | ApacheCon 2003 | Las Vegas, Nevada |
Software announcements
This week's software announcements
Here are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:
- Sorted alphabetically,
- Sorted by license.
Miscellaneous
opensurvey pilot survey
The opensurveypilot project is producing an MPL licensed web-based voting, polling, and surveying system. "To make good things better, we decided to setup up a survey regarding the future of the opensurveypilot. We and our community want to know your wishes and needs. Help us to develop a strong opensource alternative."
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