LinuxPlanet has a story about Open Source publishing and whether writers should complain about people modifying their work. “Last year I went to a Birds of a Feather session for technical writers at the New York LinuxWorld
Expo. To my amazement, I was made to listen to a bunch of people at this session bemoan the fact
that there wasn’t more open source publishing in the world. I had seen open source publishing in action before, of course, on various projects such as the Linux
Documentation Project, and other projects within the Sourceforge Web repository. But these people
were talking about something new — applying open source policies to publications already
copyrighted …
And I then found myself in a sudden wash of guilt. Was I being a hypocrite for espousing the merits
of open source on one hand, and yet being completely self-righteous about keeping my own works
protected?”

Deep into a TechWeb story about a new Dell storage market is a quote from a solutions provider sales manager. “Dell’s entry into this market will affect solution providers,
but it won’t be catastrophic, says Michael Fanelli, western
regional manager at Sales Strategies, Metuchen, N.J.

‘Our best asset is our understanding of both NT and Unix
environments, and integrating in them,’ Fanelli says. ‘NT
is not the area we go after. But we are in [NT] because
everybody is running NT, even the hardcore Linux people,
whether they admit it or not. We tell customers that if they
want to [use Dell for storage], go ahead. But we offer the
other things they need, like switches, hubs, software, and
so on.’ ”

If you’re interested, the press release is at PR Newswire:

Lineo, Inc., a leading innovator
in embedded Linux tools, real-time and high availability solutions, today
announced the appointment of Ryan Tibbitts as General Counsel for Lineo.
Effective immediately, Tibbitts assumes responsibility for Lineo’s legal
department. Tibbitts will be part of the company’s executive staff and will
report directly to company COO Matt Harris.

TechWeb has a really short press-release-ish piece: “LEAD Technologies Inc., Charlotte, N.C., says it has
solved painting problems in the Linux operating system.
Its new toolkit, LEADTOOLS Imaging, lets software
developers avoid color shifts by linking the color palettes
of the images they’re using to Linux’s own palette, the
company said.”

From a column at LinuxPlanet: “So far the open source software adventure, which is still a young and charmingly precocious entity
as such things go, has seen no lack of attention paid to the mechanics of development. There’s
endless talk about how open source projects work to pull together globally-diverse programmers,
mostly volunteers, into a distributed development effort …
But there’s a lot more to making software useful than the relatively simple act of creating it, of course.

Frankly, without a viable economic model for businesses that can step in and provide these parts of
the puzzle, open source is little more than hobbyware or tools for the most expert users and
sysadmins.”

From InternetWire: PolyServe, Inc. a leading provider of systems software for
the Internet data center, will demonstrate its
ground-breaking new high-availability server clustering
solution at the upcoming LinuxWorld Expo in New York, January 31- February 2. PolyServe will be located
in booth #1245.

There’s lots of news about Corel’s announcement that its spinning off its Linux distro An InfoWorld story talks about Corel’s plans for profits. A Canoe.ca story mentions how Corel’s stock dropped after the announcement. Slashdotters discuss our own story, plus reports at Yahoo and Linux Today.

Editor & Publisher Online has a story about how strikers at a Seattle newspaper had their Web site up about 2 hours after they went on strike. They used mySQL on Linux to help build the site.

E&P Online profiles the Seattle Union Record, the newspaper set up by striking Seattle newspaper workers. Planning for the site began just six days before the union voted to strike. Workers credit the site’s Open Source solutions — Linux as an operating system; PHP and MySQL for database publishing — for getting the site and print editions to press as quickly as possible.

Reader John Gowin writes: “KWord is part of KDE 2.0’s ambitious KOffice environment. KOffice is an environment comprised of several KDE Office applications that have been grouped together under the KOffice Workspace. KWord’s development project has been supported by theKompany, a KDE application development specialist. KWord is currently at version 0.8, which means that most of its planned features are in place and functional. The next couple of versions will probably deal with stability, and boy, it could use it.” Read the article at LinuxOrbit.com.