Announcements

OSDL Response to SCO Lawsuit - No Reason to Pay

The Open Source Development Labratory (OSDL) has released a Q&A paper on the SCO lawsuit, designed to help IT managers understand the risks of ignoring SCO's demands for Linux license fees. Here's the press release announcing the paper, in which OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen states, "we see no evidence that end users are slowing down their Linux implementation plans because of SCO's actions.. OSDL's position on this issue: .. there is real doubt as to whether end users should purchase a license from SCO." The paper, written by technology law expert Lawrence Rosen, can be found here (PDF format) and in HTML here.

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D. H. Brown's server vendor study

D.H. Brown has announced a study of Linux server vendors. "This report documents the Linux strategies of the market leaders -- Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun Microsystems, and highlights areas of distinction and difference among their offerings. Along with describing these vendors' maturing Linux strategies and offerings, the study notes Linux use by mainstream users for mission critical applications. These include Precision Response Corporation using Linux for CRM applications; Amazon.com using Linux to support a large part of their web infrastructure; and Tommy Hilfiger Corporation's use of Linux in its value-chain management application."

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SCO's earnings report

Here is SCO's press release on its third quarter earnings. The company claims a $3.1 million profit, thanks to ongoing payments on the licenses sold to Sun and Microsoft. "We intend to use this capital to continue our intellectual property protection and licensing initiative as well as for launching SCOx, our Web services strategy." SCO has also put out a press release on insider trading that, as far as we can tell, says almost nothing at all.

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A report from SCO Forum

A report from the first day at SCO Forum has been posted on the Yahoo investment boards; it is split up so you have to look separately at part 1, part 2, and part 3. It is an interesting look into what is happening there. "There was a strange disconnect between the morning sessions, putting down the GPL, and the afternoon sessions, where GPL'd software was used as a 'savior' of the OpenServer and UNIXWare products. It was mystifying to me how the participants could achieve this disconnect, but they seemed happy about the use of SAMBA 3 to achieve Active Directory compatibility and the announcements of other ports of GPL'd software from the Linux codebase to SCO products."

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Toshiba Server available with Astaro Security Linux Installed

The Toshiba compact Magnia SG20 server is now available with Astaro Security Linux. "Astaro, a developer of all-in-one security software Astaro Security Linux, today announced that the Toshiba Computer Systems Group’s (CSG) compact Magnia SG20 server with Astaro’s security software (Astaro Security Linux) is now shipping."

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Desktop Evolution, Lycoris, and Toshiba Join Forces to Launch Mainstream Linux Tablet

A new Linux tablet pc has been announced. "Desktop Evolution Incorporated, a leading developer of high-performance, appliance and embedded devices, today announced De-Tablet, a Linux Tablet built on the Toshiba Portege® tablet platform and pre-installed with Lycoris Desktop L/X® Tablet Edition, Linux Operating System."

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XUL Bookshelf Launches (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine reports on a new XML User Interface Language (XUL) Bookshelf site that has been put together by the folks at the Open XUL Alliance. Take a look to see all of the literature that's available on XUL.

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New books from Bruce Perens

Addison-Wesley/ Prentice Hall PTR have published two new books in the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series: Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File System, and Managing Linux Systems with Webmin: System Administration and Module Development.

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Nominations Open for 2003 Linux Medical News Achievement Award (LinuxMedNews)

Nominations are being accepted for the LinuxMedNews Software Achievement Award. "Open source software isn't 'magic pixie dust' and there are real people making significant personal sacrifices as well as doing difficult work to make medicine's free software future a reality. This award is intended to honor the individul who has accomplished the most towards the goal of improving medical education and practice through free/open source medical software."

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PyCon DC 2004

PyCon DC 2004 is a Python language conference that will be held in Washington, D.C. on March 24-26, 2004. "A Call For Proposals will be issued by mid-August. Presentations will be required in electronic form for publication on the web."

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Events: August 21 - October 16, 2003

Date	Event	Location
August 21, 2003	New Security Paradigms Workshop 2003(NSPW 2003)	(Centro Stefano Francini)Ascona, Switzerland
August 22 - 30, 2003	KDE Developers' Conference	(Zamek Castle)Nove Hrady, Czech Republic
August 27 - 29, 2003	International Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming(PPDP 2003)	(Uppsala University)Uppsala, Sweden
August 31 - September 2, 2003	AUUG 2003 Conference	(Duxton Hotel)Sydney, Australia
September 3 - 4, 2003	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (Cancelled)	(The NEC)Birmingham, UK
September 8, 2003	Boundaryless Information Flow: Open Source in the Enterprise	(Hilton London Paddington)London, UK
September 11 - 12, 2003	Python for Scientific Computing Workshop(SciPy'03)	(CalTech)Pasadena, CA
September 15 - 18, 2003 October 7 - 8, 2003	LogOn Web Days	Across Europe
September 15 - 18, 2003	Embedded Systems Conference(ESC)	(Hynes Convention Center)Boston, Mass
September 26 - 27, 2003	Third DZUG-Conference	Paderborn, Germany
October 12 - 15, 2003	International Lisp Conference 2003(ILC 2003)	New York, NY
October 15 - 17, 2003	The First Plone Conference	(Tulane University)New Orleans, Louisiana

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FootNotes in German (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org has announced a new German language version of the site. "GnomeDesktop-de.org is intended to make GNOME more considered in german-speaking countries like Germany and Austria by reaching people who cannot understand the original english news."

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GnuCash Documentation Page

The GnuCash Documentation Project has announced the new GnuCash Documentation Page. "Yup, that's right, we've got our own web page now. Full of useful information of access and hacking GnuCash documentation. From answers to the most basic newbie questions, to information on how to write docbook xml, it is all here."

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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.

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