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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Apache Version 2 License Approved Version 2.0 of the Apache License has been approved. "The goals of this license revision have been to reduce the number of frequently asked questions, to allow the license to be reusable without modification by any project (including non-ASF projects), to allow the license to be included by reference instead of listed in every file, to clarify the license on submission of contributions, to require a patent license on contributions that necessarily infringe the contributor's own patents, and to move comments regarding Apache and other inherited attribution notices to a location outside the license terms."
DVDCCA gives up on Bunner case According to this EFF advisory, the DVD Copy Control Association has decided to push for the dismissal of the DeCSS suit against Andrew Bunner. By doing so, the DVDCCA has given up its attempt to claim that DeCSS violates trade secrets. The battle to win the right to view DVDs on Linux systems is not yet won, since DeCSS remains vulnerable to DMCA charges. But the elimination of the trade secret attack is an important step in the right direction.
Freenode turns 10 At 1:49 UTC on January 29, Freenode (once #linuxneo, once irc.linpeople.org) will celebrate its 10th birthday. It started small in 1994, but has grown since then: "Today, Freenode peaks at over 15,000 users, and we're home to coordination channels for such projects as Debian GNU/Linux, fedora, Gentoo, KDE and subversion. We're the official IRC network of the Free Software Foundation's GNU project; we provide support channels for FreeBSD, GNU/Linux and a variety of free software applications." The party will be happening over IRC, of course, and will last all day; click below for the details.
Free Standards Group becomes an ISO specification submitter The Free Standards Group has announced that it has been recognized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as a "submitter of publicly available specifications" for Linux. This is the first step toward the FSG's goal of getting ISO certification for the Linux standards.
IEEE and The Open Group grant permissions to the Linux Man Pages project The IEEE and The Open Group have given the Linux Man Pages project permission to incorporate materials from the POSIX Standard and the Open Group Base Specifications.
Japanese NEC Soft joins OSDL NEC Soft, a Japanese software and systems integration firm, has joined the OSDL.
RealNetworks and Helix buy into Ogg The Ogg Vorbis site mentions several moves by RealNetworks to support Ogg Vorbis, an open-source audio compression system that is similar to mp3. "A triple treat! First, RealNetworks has awarded the Xiph.Org foundation one of its Helix Grants to support continued development of Ogg, second, the Real Helix player now supports Vorbis and [alpha-release] Theora, and third, Real has announced its intention to support Ogg across client, server and native production tools."
wxWindows copyright program withdrawn The wxWindows cross-platform GUI project has cancelled its new copyright assignment process. "The wxWindows Software Foundation regrets that it is cancelling the copyright assignment process due to support for assignment within the wxWindows community failing to reach a critical mass."
Commercial announcements Intel Launches Linux Tool (TechWeb) Intel Corp. has announced a new version of its commercial performance analysis tool for the Itanium processor.
MandrakeSoft posts first quarter results The MandrakeSoft shareholder newsletter for the company's first quarter is out. The bottom line: a €270,000 profit, the company's first in years. MandrakeSoft predicts a break-even result for the rest of the coming year.
MySQL Administrator available MySQL AB has announced the availability of the commercial MySQL Administrator. "MySQL Administrator is a powerful visual administration console so you can now easily administer your MySQL environment and gain significantly better visibility into the how your databases are operating. MySQL Administrator now integrates database management and maintenance into a single, seamless environment, with a clear and intuitive graphical user interface."
Red Hat (re)launches WIDE OPEN Magazine Those of us who have been watching Red Hat for a while will remember "Wide Open Source," an online news site that the company launched back when it was planning to be in the web portal business. Wide Open didn't last for very long, but, at LinuxWorld, Red Hat has announced its return - this time as a subscription-based, bi-monthly print magazine.
Red Hat to roll out Linux OS in Hindi. Red Hat has announced that it will be releasing a Hindi version of Linux in India. "Matthew Szulik, Red Hat's chief executive officer and president who is visiting India, said Thursday that the Hindi version would hit Indian markets in two months."
Sleepycat Software sales increase 60% Sleepycat Software, the company behind the Berkeley DB, has announced that sales grew 60% in 2003 and the company achieved "record levels of profitability." It is possible to make money in the free software business, it seems.
A letter from Sun to IBM Sun's Jonathan Schwartz has posted an open letter to IBM on how IBM could move over to Linux desktops. "You're probably familiar with Sun's Java Desktop System - it's the most popular Linux desktop on the market today, featuring Sun's Java Virtual Machine, the award winning StarOffice productivity suite, Mozilla browser, Gnome windowing environment, and support from Real Networks, Macromedia and Adobe.... To help IBM with your transition, we can offer a desktop for every one of your employees - with a free right to use the desktop at home - for $50/employee. Consider this a formal quote from Sun. But only if you're willing to buy in volume."
weather.com Delivers Winter Storm Details in Record Time Here's a press release from weather.com expressing their satisfaction with their new Dell systems powered by SUSE Linux.
Xandros launches business desktop and management system Xandros has sent out a couple of announcements this morning. The first is for its new "Business Desktop," which is optimized to work within Windows-dominated environments. Xandros "xDMS" is a management system intended to help with the administration of thousands of desktops.
New Books Prentice Hall publishes a new book on Qt Prentice Hall has published the book C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 by Blanchette and Summerfield.
Resources LDP Weekly News The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out for January 21, 2004. Take a look for the latest documentation changes.
LDP Weekly News The January 28, 2004 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News has been published. Take a look for the latest new documentation releases.
Contests and Awards LinuxWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards Winners The winners of the LinuxWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards have been announced. "LinuxWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards Recognize 56 Winners and Finalists for Excellence in Every Aspect of Linux in 14 Separate Categories, From Best Linux Distro to Best Linux Programming Environment".
Winners of Product Excellence Awards IDG World Expo has announced the winners of the Product Excellence Awards at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. Some of the award winners include Novell, IBM Tivoli, Xandros and KDE.
ActiveState Perl Haiku Poetry Contest A new Perl Haiku Contest is being held by ActiveState. Prizes are available, Perl Poetry should be submitted by February 8, 2004.
Event Reports Thursday's LinuxWorld press releases LinuxWorld is, as always, an effective generator of press releases. Here's a sampling:
Free Software and World Social Forum 2004 - Mumbai The World Social Forum in Mumbai, India made use of Linux and open-source software. "Free Software keeps communications alive at the WSF The Media Center at WSF 2004, equipped with a complete network lab of 120 computers and 40 lap-top connections was maintained open and functional 24 hrs for the entire forum with FREE SOFTWARE!!!"
Upcoming Events Second LAD Conference The second Linux Audio Developers (LAD) conference has been announced. The event will take place from April 29 - May 2, 2004 in Karlsruhe, Germany. A call for music (CFM) is included in the announcement.
AGNULA at Sounds Expo 2004 Members of the AGNULA project (A GNU Linux Audio distribution) will be at the GNU/Linux Audio Centre booth during the Sounds Expo 2004 conference in London on February 10-12, 2004.
The Open Group's Open Standards and Certification Conference The Open Group will be holding their Boundaryless Information Flow: Open Standards & Certification conference on February 2-6, 2004 in San Diego, CA.
Third Annual CodeCon announced The Third Annual CodeCon conference will be held in San Francisco, CA on February 20-22, 2004.
Copyright in the Digital Age, Brussels A free workshop entitled "Copyright in the Digital Age" will be held in Brussels on February 4, 2004. "This is a one day workshop hosted by the The Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Committee on Intellectual Property, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation."
LogOn Briefings at CeBIT - Call for Submissions LogOn Technology Transfer has announced its upcoming technical briefings program. "As part of the enhanced educational program of this year's CeBIT show in Hannover (March 18-24, 2004), LogOn Technology Transfer is organizing a program of technical briefings."
Mozilla Developer Day (MozillaZine) The next Mozilla Developer Day will be held on February 27, 2004 in (or near) Mountain View, CA.
SIIA Announces First Enterprise Software Summit The first Enterprise Software Summit has been announced. The event will take place on May 17-19, 2004 in San Francisco, CA. "The list of topics to be addressed include: offshore outsourcing, utility computing, licensing models, open source issues, consolidation, revenue recognition issues and many more of the challenges facing the new software industry."
6th German Perl Workshop The sixth German Perl Workshop will be held near Stuttgart, Germany on June 29 - July 1, 2004. A call for papers has been posted.
PyCon Early Bird Registration Deadline The early bird registration deadline for PyCon DC 2004 is February 1, 2004.
Events: January 29 - March 27, 2004
Web sites OSDir BB for Linux Steve Mallett has announced his OSDir open source applications forum in an O'Reilly article. The forum aims to help Windows users transition to the world of Open Source software.
Software announcements This week's software announcements Here are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:
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