Alexandre Dulaunoy writes “Date: 03 Dec 2001 01:06:16 +0000
From: João Miguel Neves
To: discussion@fsfeurope.org
Subject: Copyright Extensions threathen Free Software in Europe

This is an article I wrote about the effects of DMCA and EUCD (European
Union Copyright Directive) on free software. I’m looking for comments
and sugestions. I hope that this raises a discussion that defines what
FSFE will do about this.

A web copy is available at http://silvaneves.org/eucd/eucd-fs.en.html
and I’m gathering information on this subject on
http://silvaneves.org/eucd/eucd.en.html.”

ZDNet reports that Excite@Home has reached deals with 3 companies preventing about half of its 4 million users from losing connectivity.

Network World Fusion reports: “Cisco Systems is bolstering support for IPv6 in its routing software by including protocol translation between IPv6 and IPv4 networks and support for other current software capabilities, the company announced Monday at the IPv6 Forum Summit in Yokohama, Japan.”

ZDNet has a first look at the Monday announcement. “Seeking to prove it isn’t the dinosaur of the handheld market, Sharp
Electronics on Monday relaunched the Zaurus in the United States.”

The press release is at MandrakeSoft.com:

MandrakeSoft announces the immediate availability of Mandrake Linux 8.1 for Intel Itanium Architecture. The Itanium 64-bit architecture is a
high-performance platform commonly used for servers and highly demanding business software, such as large database, ERM/CRM applications
or advanced computing.

Stuff.co.nz has a feature on Weta Digital chief technical officer Jon Labrie, whose team worked on special
effects for the movie, “The Lord of the Rings.”

He says Linux is gradually replacing Irix as the operating system of choice in the effects world, and Weta’s facility is running a substantial amount of Linux at the moment, on processors in the
machine room that are “the core of the rendering wall.”

Posted on LWN.net: The Python Checkbook Manager (aka pycheckbook) is now available from
http://pycheckbook.sourceforge.net. Version 0.5 adds support for GTK+
widgets in addition to the Tk widgets.

Pycheckbook is a minimalist checkbook manager. Quicken and GnuCash offer
more features, but pycheckbook is only ~1300 lines of code, and thus is
much easier to understand, hack, customize, etc.

From BusinessWire: IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows,
conferences and events for IT markets, announced today that the upcoming LinuxWorld Conference & Expo will provide more practical
advice and instruction than ever to help users maximize constricted IT budgets and implement new solutions in record time.

Posted at LWN.net: “The OpenSSH daemon shipped with SuSE distributions contains various minor
bugs which allows bypassing of IP-access control in some circumstances or
the deletion of files named “cookies” if X11 forwarding is enabled.
It has also been verified that the recent remotely exploitable crc32 bug as
well as the logging-bug has been fixed in our latest ssh packages.
We strongly recommend to update to OpenSSH version 2.9.9p2.”

From PR Newswire: Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world’s largest enterprise software company,
and Dell today announced the availability of Oracle(R) Certified
Configurations for Dell servers and storage. Available on Microsoft Windows
and Linux, Oracle Certified Configurations for Dell are designed to help
customers lower risk and speed deployment of the Oracle9i Database in a single
node system or clustered environment.