ZDNet is reporting that an anonymous institutional investor is investing over $50,000,000 in embattled software company Corel.

More humor from Segfault: “Most people on the Internet are familiar with the mass broadcasts of email known as spam.
These broadcasts are based on lists of email addresses harvested from the net. Such lists
have traditionally been closed and sold at high prices. We at the FreeSpam Project aim to
end this by providing free, in both the libre and beer meaning, high-quality lists with email
addresses harvested from the net by our network of volunteers. We believe that everyone,
not just people with power or money, should have the right to send high-quality spam.”

Seminars are scheduled in Octobor addressing why Linux is the best solution for embedded
systems, and how you can use it for real-time performance, plus how to
build data acquisition and telecom servers using Linux and achieve both top
performance and maximum flexibility. The seminar is Oct. 3 in Burlington, Mass., and Oct. 5 in Vienna, Va. The
annoucenment is at alllinuxdevices.com.

Linux seller Caldera Systems has
invested $3 million in Ebiz Enterprises, which operates LinuxMall.com and The Linux Store, reports CNet.

“Early this morning, a number of not-quite-open source corporations, ranging from Microsoft to
IBM, annouced that they would begin to publish many part of their applications under the UYF
(Up Yours FSF) license. The upshot of the license is that you are allowed to do anything you want
with the code it is designed for, except compile it.”
The story’s from the humor site Segfault.

AbriaSoft, a Silicon Valley
provider of database solutions for the Internet,
announced its release of the Abria
MySQL Admin Training CD-ROM, its first in a series of MySQL education products.
AbriaSoft is the first company to commercially distribute MySQL into a boxed
package for online database solutions. The press release is at Internet Wire.

From a column at Securityfocus.com: “Every season yields a bumper crop of computer security stories: break-ins, new vulnerabilities, new
products. But this season has also given us a crop of stories about computer security philosophy. There has
been a resurgence in opposition to the full disclosure movement: the theory that states that publishing
vulnerabilities is the best way to fix them. In response, defenders of the movement have published their
rebuttals. And even more experts have weighed in with opinions on the DeCSS case, where a New York
judge ruled that distributing an attack tool is illegal.”

Zope.org offers a high-level overview of the next planned Zope feature release.

From a review at Linux World: “IBM has become legendary in the Linux community for its repeated announcements and
reannouncements regarding Linux support. It seems every six months at some Linux show or even
a general PC show, IBM pledges across-the-board Linux support. That is all very odd because
since Big Blue’s first altar conversion a couple of years ago, it has done a great deal for the Linux
community (despite purported resistance from the AIX group), but by constantly reproclaiming its
allegiance, it gives the impression that it never followed through on prior pledges.”

Intel Corporation has
announced that it is placing an Open Runtime Platform into the open source
community as a research platform for advancing e-Business applications. E-Business
applications are typically compiled to an intermediate computer language rather than the
traditional executable used for PC applications. This intermediate language gives these
applications a flexibility that enables different platforms to cooperate in completing an
electronic transaction.
The press release comes from Business Wire.