The GCC steering committee has issued a statement about Red Hat (and others) including alpha development code in their distributions. Slashdot has a discussion of the issue.

Webb Interactive Services of Denver, owners of the Open Source Instant Messaging company Jabber.com, has been named to Deloitte & Touche’s “Fast 50”
Program for Colorado, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies
in the state. The press release is at PR Newswire.

CNET reports that the group, which was founded in 1997, sent a letter in April to Microsoft, asking them to stop using the
name “DigitalDiva” in conjunction with tech know-how for the computer illiterate. Founders of Digital Divas
said that they had been using the name for three years in association with computer-related assistance;
and because content on both sites was similar, the group charged that Microsoft had violated its
operational trademark.

The child privacy regulations apparently don’t apply to government sites. Bend over once again, American citizens. From a report at Wired.com.

That’s where Microsoft is throwing a big coming-out celebration for Exchange 2000. We could sneak in and wave big Linux signs. Think they’d get mad? Find out more details at Infoworld.com.

CRN believes Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie is up to something big, as an announcement is expected on October 24th about his current project.

From a Linux World story: “The Linux Standard Base has accomplished little, and few distributors are complying
with the slim specifications it has produced. … Passive leaders
are to blame.”

CNet reports that the long-awaited Crusoe chip for laptops has been released on Sony’s Vaio PictureBook.

Slashdot readers talk about the availability of the AMD X86-64 simulator for Linux, called SimNow!. “Unfortunately, the kernel 64 bit port is not done yet, but hey,
you got a nice simulated machine to play with!”

New book at NewRiders.com: “Developers who are looking to participate in this growth area will need to learn new Open
Source tools. GNU Autoconf, GNU Automake and GNU Libtool are key tools for Open Source
application development. These tools are not easy to learn, so some of the leading authorities
on these tools have worked together on this book to teach developers how to boost their
productivity and the portability of their application.”