Open Source Online (OSO), http://www.oso.com.cn, was launched to serve
and promote Open-Source IT in China, according to this report on Linux PR. OSO offers industry outlooks,
lectures, source codes, program downloads and forums to members at all
levels of computer literacy.

IDG News Service reports, Asian companies are one to two years behind the U.S. in adopting
advanced Java software technologies, but growth in the Java market
in Asia is faster than in the U.S., according to software tools vendor
Inprise/Borland.

A veteran bug hunter has detected a security hole in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 5.5, Outlook and Outlook Express. CNET.com reports.

TechWeb reports that Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates
challenged participants at the Creating Digital Dividends
conference, saying that direct technology investments in
developing countries might be useless if the population
isn’t healthy or literate.

A new company encourages people to dig up pre-existing technology that helps debunk bogus patents. And guess who started it? Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and the man who claims Amazon’s 1-Click Shopping patent is a crock. From Wired.com.

Wired.com: A German hacker from Berlin’s famed Chaos Computer Club is voted to the board of ICANN, which oversees domain issues on the Internet. He wants people to understand that “hacker” is not a bad word.

LWN.net reports: “The current development kernel release is 2.4.0-test9. The -test10 prepatch is currently in its fourth
revision. This patch contains the usual pile of assorted fixes. It also has one new feature: the “frame
divertor.”

The commission alleged that the computer software giant is abusing its strength in the market for personal computer operating systems software by leveraging this power into the market for server software. From Infoworld.com.

Matthew Bowen, 28, is suing the San Francisco-based software company and its former CEO
Fernand Sarrat in California Superior Court alleging, in one of six separate claims, that he was the
subject of “quid pro quo” sexual harassment and sexual assault by Sarrat. The complaint also
alleges that Linuxcare created a hostile environment in which sexual harassment could flourish, that
the company retaliated against Bowen when he complained about Sarrat’s alleged harassment and
that it failed to prevent discrimination or harassment in its workplace. The story is at UpsideToday.com.

LinuxNews.com reports that Linux has been making an impact in one economically troubled country after another–and India, it seems, is next on that
growing list.