Wired: “Lawrence Lessig, who teaches Internet law at Stanford, tells LinuxWorld attendees to rally behind those who oppose laws that restrict the freedom of information.”

LinuxSecurity: “RUS-CERT has discovered that several Apache authentication modules
which use SQL databases to store authentication information are
vulnerable to a remote SQL code injection attack.”

LWN: “LWN.net Senior Editor Michael J. Hammel and staff member Dennis Tenney are covering the LinuxWorld SF 2001 conference and exhibit this year. Today’s summary is a brief
rundown of what they saw on the first day of the full conference talks and exhibit.”

Salon: “A Wall Street Journal reporter says in a new book that even though Gates screwed up Microsoft’s future he still might “shoot the moon.”

Brand new issue of LWN, ripe for the pickin’.

LinuxJournal: “Welcome, everyone, to a brand new series here at the SysAdmin’s Corner, home of all things Linux and all things sysadminish (if that is a word). This is the place for those of us who not only work with our Linux
systems, but, dang it all, we have fun with it too. Ever hear the expression, “You can’t get there from here?” Sure you have and, if you’re like me, you hate it. It implies limits, and limits are just the sort of thing we
try to do away with here on this rather sunny corner of the Linux world.”

Kelly McNeill writes: “Commerce, by definition, means the exchange of goods. However, what’s missing from the e-commerce model today is the ability to facilitate that exchange when the delivery person is standing outside a consumer’s locked front door. If nobody in your family could be home to receive the home-delivery of the goods you ordered on the Internet, would you order the stuff in the first place? If you answered that question with a “no,” you are part of the majority.”

From CNet: “The biggest development in Linux in the past year has been a more refined user interface, Linux founder Linus Torvalds said Wednesday, deprecating the deeper work that remains his own domain.”

linux.conf.au 2002 organisers writes “linux.conf.au 2002 is a Linux and Linux-related
conference, to be held in Brisbane, Australia, Feb 6–9, 2002. The organising
committee has released its call
for papers. Paper abstracts should be sent to the
linux.conf.au papers list; the
organisers list serves
as a contact for all other enquiries.”

From CNet: “Linux’s success in the low-end servers led [Microsoft] to revise its server product line, said Doug Miller, director of competitive strategy for Microsoft’s Windows division. And Microsoft learned that it needs better interactions with the programmers who use Microsoft products.”