Support for Dialogic CT boards is added to Extensys, according to a press release at LinuxPR.

The newsletter is posted at LWN.net.

From a Reuters story: America Online and Time Warner Inc on Tuesday said they were confident they could persuade European regulators they had nothing to fear from their merger and from Warner Music’s joint venture with EMI Group.

The high-tech industry is torn over the value — or peril — of p-to-p (peer-to-peer) networking, the technology pushed to the forefront by the highly publicized MP3.com and Napster copyright disputes. But while experts debate whether p-to-p is a valuable way to distribute data over the Internet or a hazard to companies that want to keep their private matters private, vendors are stepping forward on both sides of the issue, hoping to cash in. InfoWorld reports.

From an opinion at ZDNet: “Antitrust law has seldom protected consumers. At best, it has offered glimmers of consumer protection. For instance, the Justice Department’s argument that Microsoft’s rivals and, ultimately, consumers would benefit from the ordered breakup is spectacularly unconvincing. Even some of Microsoft’s biggest detractors argue that technology will eventually smash the Microsoft monopoly, not the legal system.”

From an opinion piece at LinuxWorld: “Information doesn’t want to be free: some people want free information. If you do, make it yourself, just like those who built Linux did.”

PR Newswire reports, Corel Corporation today announced it will partner
with PCTEL, Inc., a global leader in innovative and reliable
communication technologies, to bring the industry’s first Linux-compatible software modem to market.

Linux PR is pleased to announce the availibility of Extensys 1.0.1 for the Linux Intel Platform.

The Senate committee said it will examine the Carnivore “controversy,”
and generally discuss electronic surveillance and Internet privacy Wednesday, reports Newsbytes.

LinuxWorld observes, Neoware which has made its name selling thin clients for Windows, now has built a new strategy around embedded systems, appliances, and Linux.