Wired News speaks with Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC), the chairman of the House subcommittee of courts and intellectual property, and with key members of his staff.

Linux Weekly News reports, SOT, publisher of the #1 Linux in Finland – the home country of Linux
and Linus – is establishing a distribution office for Best Linux in
the USA in response to growing demand.

VA Linux Systems, Inc., Diamond Sponsor of the IDG LinuxWorld Conference & Expo being held this week in Frankfurt, Germany, today announced that it has expanded its operations in Germany, the
UK, the Netherlands and Belgium with a number of key additions to its European team from Business Wire. (Full disclosure: NewsForge is owned by VA Linux.)

Microwindows v0.89pre2 is released with quite a few new capabilities, including handwriting
recognition, graphics keyboard, and a new window manager, reports All Linux Devices.

PRNewswire: SteelEye Technology Inc., a leading provider of reliability platforms for
Linux-based eBusiness applications, today announced that it will demonstrate
high availability Linux clustering solutions for mySAP.com, including
Human Resources, Financials and Logistics components, as well as, Oracle8i
and Apache environments on industry-leading Compaq ProLiant servers during LinuxWorld in Frankfurt, Germany.

When it comes to security, this Enterprise Linux Today article states,
the three basic categories of importance are data integrity, access control and auditing.

ZDNet article proclaims, as XML shoves aside HTML, the simple
nature of the Web and the Web’s user-friendly character is being killed.

LinuxPlanet looks at the AmiWM, a window manager designed to emulate the classic Amiga OS Workbench interface, and takes a trip down Amiga’s memory lane.

Under the terms of the deal, NEC will supply HP with
its new “AzusA” server, a machine based on 16 Intel
Itanium processors, which HP will then resell under its
own name as part of the HP9000 series of servers.
For its part HP has committed to developing and
supplying its Unix operating system, HP-UX, for the
IA-64 platform. The two companies also agreed to
collaborate on enhancing HP-UX for the AzusA
server, from IDG News Service on NetworkWorldFusion News

use Perl announces, ActiveState has released PerlDevKit 2.0 and
ActivePerl Build 618, based on perl 5.6.