HP’s site has a feature on Bruce Perens. It’s at http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/feature_stories/ opensource01.htm. “Perens’ assignment at HP is twofold: to spread the gospel of open source software to HP divisions – from home
printers to enterprise servers – while demonstrating to the ever-growing open source developer community HP’s
commitment to being a good partner in the support and adoption of open source software.”

Bruce Perens writes, “HP runs a feature article on their web site “hp.com”. It’s my turn to be the feature. Please see http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/feature_stories/ opensource01.htm. Thanks.”

The Register reports that British PC resellers Pacific Computers and Taran
Microsystems “believe that Microsoft issued proceedings against them because it intends to
stamp on any grey market activity, and that the software giant considers any of its
software not sold through its authorised channels as pirated.”

A column at IT-director talks about the “need” for consolidation among Linux vendors, but suggests the timing is bad at the moment. The Linux community seems too diverse to make big moves toward consolidation, the author suggests.

From Advogato.org: “I call you all to boycott the JPEG2000 and MPEG-4 standards. These standards are plagued by patents, which
disallow their free use. Please do not use, purchase or sponsor any work based on these standards. They are
only ‘open’ in the sense that their specification is available for view for all upon payment.”

Anonymous Reader writes, “TangentOrg has released stored procedure support for MySQL written in Perl. There is an article here describing the new support. This means you can now store perl and have it executed inside of MySQL. You can also write on demand perl code to modify rows inside of the database.”

From BusinessWire: Turbolinux(R), Inc., the leader in high-performance Linux for Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced the release of
EnFuzion 7.0, a clustering technology that transforms a company’s existing network of Linux, Unix, and Microsoft Windows servers or
workstations into a supercomputer. No dedicated servers or workstations are necessary as EnFuzion integrates transparently into a
business’ current operating environment.

Posted at LWN.net: “Sendmail is a largely used Mail Transfer Agent (MTA).
Versions between (and including) 8.10.0 and 8.11.5 and some 8.12 beta
versions have a local vulnerability that allows a local attacker to
obtain root privileges.
Cade Cairns from Security Focus discovered an input validation error
in sendmail’s debugging functionality. The function that handles the
“-d” command line option uses a signed integer for that value and
uses it as an index to an internal vector. This function does not
check for negative values of this index, which allows a local
attacker to cause a signed integer overflow by supplying large
numbers to this parameter which can be used to write data outside
that vector.”

Slashdot readers react to a story by the Los Angeles Times saying dead people are writing the Utah attorney general in support of Microsoft. Insert your own Sixth Sense joke.

Anonymous Reader writes, “Linux.com has an article by John Stanforth that talks about the growing rift between the Open Source camp and the Free Software camp. It explains the politics of RMS and recommends we don’t use the GNU/Linux name if we believe in Open Source!!”