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Stallman Begs to Differ with Troll Tech’s Allison

Author: JT Smith

Richard Stallman rebuts Warwick Allison in a BeOpen.com letter to the editor.

Category:

  • Linux

NetBSD Security Advisory: Netscape 4.73

Author: JT Smith

The buffer overrun in Netscape’s JPEG parser has been fixed in 4.74; here is the
NetBSD Security Advisory.

Category:

  • Linux

Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL

Author: JT Smith

A new edition of
Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL
is now up, with news and links in the world of Python.

Category:

  • Linux

PKI still mired in pilot mode

Author: JT Smith

from ZDNet’s eWeek. Quote from story: PKI (public-key infrastructure) two years ago held the title of most
promising security technology. But in the battle to become a staple of
IT security, PKI has fallen behind intrusion detection, anti-virus
software and e-mail filtering and is in danger of becoming “forever
pilotware,” said Chris King, an analyst at Greenwich Technology
Partners Inc., in Stamford, Conn.

Category:

  • Linux

Latest Netscape 6 Beta Due This Week

Author: JT Smith

[announcement]Full story at SiliconValley.internet.com. Quote: “There will be at least one more beta before a final version slated for this fall. This is
a critical time for Netscape given that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has overtaken the once-dominant
Netscape browser to gain the lion’s share of the market.”

Category:

  • Linux

MandrakeSoft Appoints Internet Pioneer Henri Poole as CEO.

Author: JT Smith

[press release]San Francisco, CA, August 7, 2000 – MandrakeSoft Inc., the company behind the world’s
fastest-growing Linux operating system, Linux-Mandrake, today announced the appointment of
Internet industry pioneer Henri Poole as its new Chief Executive Officer. Poole also joins the board
of directors of the company.
Complete text here.

OLinux.com.br Interviews Arturo Espinosa

Author: JT Smith

“Arturo Espinosa Aldama forms part of the generation that was early exposed to
8-bit computers and BASIC programming. He has been either an amateur or
professional programmer since, and a GNU/Linux user since he started his
computer sciences studies at UNAM, the National University of Mexico. Having
worked in several institutional systems for the university and the Red Escolar
Linux project for the ministry of education, he now works for HelixCode, a
leading Free Software development company.”
Interview at OLinux.com.br.

Category:

  • Linux

MS Claims New C# Scripting Language Surpasses Perl!

Author: JT Smith

“Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: !@*$#) announced today that with the announcement of its mythical
language C#, along with technologies like ASP+ and COM+, the company has dealt Open Source another
devastating blow: Microsoft Marketese has achieved the highest density of non-alphanumeric characters in
any language, displacing the popular scripting language Perl, which long held this distinction.”
At least, that’s what [humor site] Segfault claims.

Category:

  • Management

*We Should Follow up on one like this & wrote our own story!*

Author: JT Smith

url … OpenMail for Linux Sees Tremendous User-base