From an announcement at LWN.net: “In the last week, the number of new members admitted into Debian by the
New-Maintainer process has passed the 100 mark. There are more than 100
applicants currently being processed by Application Managers and fewer
than 100 potential applicants waiting in the queue for the next available
Application Manager. This represents a major milestone in the new
procedure, indicating that the machinery is in full operation and
doorway into Debian is fully open once again.”

Slashdot readers discuss a story from Newsbytes saying a New Hampshire court has ruled that Internet usage recores can be accessed by others. The father of a public school student asked for Internet records of all students in the district and got them.

From a press release at Business Wire:

I-Logix Inc., a provider of enterprise solutions for embedded applications development, today announced that the requests for
its newly launched free Rhapsody Modeler have exceeded 12,000 in the five months it has been available. Launched in May 2000, Rhapsody
Modeler is a free version of I-Logix’ award-winning Rhapsody application development platform, enabling developers to analyze, design,
document and generate C, C++, and Java code frames for their applications, all in a UML-compliant environment.

The Register reports on a letter it received from the Dutch cracker Dimitri, who disputes their dispute of his Microsoft cracking claim.
He wrote: “I really laught when I read your article. So you think I’m bluffing?” The Register adds, “A link was then given to hack mirror site Attrition which confirmed his side of the
story. The hack message, put up on Microsoft’s events Web site, ran: ‘Patching
your systems is very hard huh. MSG to Britney Spears. I loved your concert in the
netherlands.’ “

A ZD Net columnist talks about selling Linux to uers in Jamaica, and how you can almost see the change of expression on people’s faces when they finally “get” the benefits of Open Source software.

ZDNet UK reports on the new Asian-language registrations of Internet domain names. One company says it registered 16,000 domain names Friday (those Asians are ahead of us in a little time warp).

Bell Worldwide has released PreViking 0.3 under the GNU General Public License. PreViking is an Telephony Deamon written in C that has been designed with a modular structure that easily allows the addition of new services and the support of new hardware. Currently a calling card service is supplied and a service for recording voice prompts.

The Register does a story on Red Hat’s drive toward profits, saying the Linux distributor is on track for 100 percent revenue growth by the end of 2001.

ZDNET reports that Microsoft Corp. shareholders Thursday defeated
the company’s first-ever shareholder proposals
that would have forced the software giant to detail
political contributions and take a vocal stance on
human rights abuses in China.

2600’s layout and design artist, ShapeShifter, is scheduled to go on trial in Philadelphia on Tuesday, November 14. He was arrested during the Republican National Convention and held on half a million dollars bail.