I just found this and thought it could be helpful for the group. OpenMind Publishing Group will soon have inexpensive textbooks online. They plan on generating their content via an open content system — kind of mirroring the open source software movement. Check out OpenText Project. This is where the community will soon share info. Neat idea! -Anonymous Reader

Business method patent lawsuits (like amazon.com’s against barnesandnoble.com over “one click shopping”) have become common in the U.S. It looks like this illness may spread to Australia soon, if this AustralianIT story can be believed.

Info on potential BSD klogin security breach if certain Kerberos versions are configured incorrectly, at securityfocus.com.

Whimsical story at cbs.com says pretzel lovers are lively and energetic, tortilla chip lovers are perfectionists, and cheese curl munchers have high integrity. (There will be a brief break in NewsVac posting while the editor on duty refills his bowl of tortilla chips.)

Fortune.com column asks, “Should Palm regret licensing its software to its strongest competitor in the surging market for handheld devices?”

“On Tuesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs told a rapt audience at the Seybold Seminars publishing conference that
the first public beta of Mac OS X will be released on September 13 at Apple Expo in Paris.”Story at Wired.

From [Linux] Kernel Mailing List, spotted at LinuxToday, Linus annouced, Ok, there’s a test8-pre1 out there in testing.

Serguei Miridonov annouced V 0.5 of the Linux driver for Miro/Pinnacle Systems Inc. DC10plus and some DC10 cards on Aug 28, 2000.

The RTC Group and LinuxDevices.com have released the technical program of the second Embedded Linux Expo & Conference, to be held October 27th, in Westborough, MA. The main keynote address will be given by Alex Morrow, IBM “Fellow,” and project leader of IBM’s Linux Wrist Watch Project. The press release is at Linuxdevices.com.

Online auction house QXL has been fined £34,000 by the U.K.’s Business Software Alliance for using 200 pirated software packages from Microsoft, Adobe and Symantec. QXL said in a statement that it had been using the software “unwittingly” and had now rectified the problem. But, according to Mike Newton, campaign relations manager for BSA UK, this is a widespread problem now that companies allow employees to download software freely from the Internet. IT Wire reports.