Slashdot readers talk about who to nominate for the Open Source Development Lab’s board of directors. Nominate yourself! Nominate your neighbor!

ZDNET.co.uk reports: “One in five employers may be snooping on their staff emails without informing them or gaining their consent, according to a new report published Tuesday.” Now we know why the suits have been spending so much time with netops lately.

From an article at Fairfax IT:
“Linux software and support company VA Linux Systems (ed. note: VA owns Newsforge) today more than halved its expected revenues for its 2001 fiscal year, boding of tough times ahead and showing how tough it is to make money off open source software.” Yeah, it’s so hard to make money off Open Source that we didn’t even realize VA Linux was a software company. Go figure.

ZDNET reports that the U.K. “government claims Tuesday to have smashed its own targets for the delivery of services via the Internet.

The original target — for 2002 — was to have a quarter of government services delivered electronically, but the Cabinet Office claims that more than 40 percent are already available.” Now, why can’t the U.S. government beat a deadline for a change? Oh yes, because it’s the U.S. government. We forgot.

ZDNET reports: “The developers of hacker video technology DivX are going public, opening up much of their work to the open source community.” Not exactly public, not exactly mainstream, but probably good news for us.

Network World Fusion: “Despite dubbing fiscal 2000 overall a “record” year for both earnings and revenue, Intel Tuesday announced revised fourth-quarter financial results and said it expects first-quarter results to be adversely hit by current economic uncertainty. The company also revealed that it plans to close a manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico as a way to cut costs.”

“If you haven’t heard all the hype yet about Web-based software offerings,” says PCWorld, “brace yourself–because you’re
going to be hearing a lot about them in coming months. Numerous companies have recently cropped up offering
Web-based programs, which they tout as the successors to traditional shrink-wrapped software.”

From Wired: “Nicholas Donofrio, a senior VP at IBM, stops off in the Emerald Isle on his way to a prestigious lecture. He had many words for his guests, but one that resonates: ‘voice.'”

“If you wanted to assemble a “must read” list for any businessperson
looking at the Linux/Free Software industry, what would you include?
Certainly “Open Sources” from O’Reilly, is the most obvious answer,
probably followed by Bob Young’s upcoming “Under the Radar,” which
details the story of Red Hat’s rise.” From OSOpinion.

India’s prominence in the software industry gives tremendous satisfaction to
many here in the subcontinent, reports BusinessWeek. Starting with the Y2K-solution business and
continuing with software-outsourcing services, Indian companies have become
key players in the global economy. The likes of Infosys, Satyam, and Wipro
are now favorites of investors both in Bombay and in New York. Indian
officials are talking grandly of turning the country into an
information-technology (IT) superpower.