Advogato has a brief statement from Bruce Perens: “I have accepted a position on the W3C Patent Policy Board.”

CNet reports that “Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer have decided how to divvy up jobs among several top executives” in the companies’ continued effort to merge operations.

PC World reports that Intel is singing a new tune – “More than Gigahertz”, saying there are ways to improve processors other than simply increasing clock speed.

ZDNet reports “Microsoft released a Web traffic report Thursday that showed its MSN site beating rival Yahoo in the contest for top search engine, a ranking that was immediately disputed by the Web portal.”

It’s in the new issue of ApacheWeek.com.

“Apache 1.3.22 was released on 12th October 2001 and is now the latest version of the Apache server. The previous
release was 1.3.20, released on the 22nd May 2001. Version 1.3.21 was never released.”

Slashdot has an item saying the U.S. Department of Justice is asking for a dimissal of the case where a Princeton professor is suing it and the SDMI for trying to silence his research by using the DMCA. The DOJ doesn’t think the case presents significant First Amendment issues, apparently. The DOJ memorandum is at EFF.org (in PDF format).

CNet reports that the U.S. government and Microsoft failed to settle their
antitrust case before the first deadline imposed by a federal judge.

CRN.com has a column saying Linux is being used by more than a third of solution
providers and end-customer companies in North America.

From CNet: “Apple Computer and Hewlett-Packard have both submitted statements to the World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C) urging the organization not to adopt a policy that would permit the
charging of royalties for technologies used in approved standards.”

Mozilla 0.9.5 browser ready for try-outs. MozillaQuest Magazine (MozillaQuest.com) reports: “The Mozilla Organization released a very buggy Milestone Mozilla 0.9.5 edition of its Mozilla browser-suite today, on schedule. [It] is cross-platform and open source. Builds are available for the BSD, Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Sun, and several UNIX platforms. Source code is available if you want to custom compile your own Mozilla Milestone 0.9.5 build.”
http://mozillaquest.com/Mozilla_News_01/Mozilla_0- 9-5_released_Story01.html. There’s another story at Mozilla.org.