bsdtoday.com report says, “A new core team has been elected for FreeBSD. Its main responsibility is recruiting developers.”

“As part of its $135 million investment in ailing software maker Corel, announced last week, Microsoft has secured an avenue for
translating key parts of its recently announced .Net’ software architecture for the Linux operating system,” says CNet.

No doubt about it, says Chairman Bill! Even if desktop PCs have a slowly-disintergrating position in the marketplace, the big M is gonna do fine forevermore. Read it at InfoWorld.

Direct from the RIAA: “WASHINGTON, D.C., October 12, 2000 – The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced today
that it has launched a new project to develop a standardized system for identifying digital files of sound recordings.
This identification system, to be used in sound recordings world-wide, will build on and integrate with identification
systems already in use. A primary benefit of the project will be to facilitate and accelerate the growth of digital delivery
of music on the Internet.”

ZDNet focuses on failures of free ISPs in Latin American countries; of many that started within the last few years, only a few are left, and those few are also having problems staying in business.

ZDNet story from London says, “Not only were sex sites the earliest to recognise the
opportunities of the web, but they went through the
learning curve much quicker than mainstream web
sites, sex industry entrepreneurs told Reuters at a
streaming media conference here.”

First, check the Salon story about the code used in the Secure Digital Music Initiative getting cracked — possibly sooner than it should be — then read the hundreds of Slashdot comments about the Salon story and its subject matter.

A CNN storytells about a group of hackers managed to break the so-called “world’s toughest code.” The story says,
“It took the Swedes the equivalent of 70 years of computer
time to decipher 10 increasingly difficult codes set by
author Simon Singh in his international bestseller ‘The
Code Book.'”

“The Internet’s oversight body has quietly changed its
own rules to give European leaders a new top-level
domain,”

says ZDNet.

Red Hat has take some hard knocks on Slashdot (and elsewhere) recently, so Bob Young wrote an open letter to Slashdot readers telling his side of a lot of the talk surrounding problems with the recent RH 7.0 release.