From CNet: “A federal appeals court on Thursday issued setbacks to both Microsoft and the
government in their long-running antitrust battle.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Microsoft’s request that it
reconsider its June decision that the software giant illegally integrated its Internet browser with its
Windows operating system.”

From LinuxPR: Nemein Solutions, the leading Nordic provider of Midgard solutions arranges a
free Midgard installfest on August 14th, starting at 17:00.

Midgard is a freely-available solution for managing content on web and WAP
services. It is also a toolkit for building dynamic applications to power eBusiness
and Information Management processes. Midgard has been built and is actively
maintained a global group of software professionals working together in this
Open Source project. (It’s in Finland.)

LinuxPlanet has a column on the slow news days of August. The columnist suggests you use the time to help debug your favorite Open Source program.

From LinuxPR: Continuing the tradition since 1999 when Dell began factory-installing Red Hat Linux on all
PowerEdge Servers, Dell is pleased to announce availability of the PowerEdge 7150 Intel
Itanium-based server, running Red Hat Linux 7.1 for the Itanium Processor.

From LinuxPR: ISPDB Limited, the Cambridge (UK) based ISP solutions firm, has today
announced that the Company is to be dissolved, and the Copyright to all its
software is now up for sale.

ISPDB is a provisioning system for small to medium ISPs running Linux. It
features three fully automated interfaces: an administration interface to allow
ISP staff to add, view and update customer records and their associated
purchased products; a sign up interface for selling products to both new and old
customers over the net; a customer interface to allow customers to update their
details, customise purchased products and view account status.

Posted at LWN.net: “It has come to our attention that rumors are floating regarding
the appearance of a Red Hat Linux beta release, named ROSWELL. We
would like to reassure you that there is nothing of the sort.”

Commentary from Bruce Perens on ZDNet: “It’s time for an amendment of DMCA to restore the concept of fair use in copyright law that
DMCA abrogates, so that the legitimate owners of a copy of digital media won’t be treated like
criminals any longer. And while we’re at it, it’s time to get Sklyarov back to Russia and his
newborn child.”

ZDNet reports that a “former computer administrator at DeKalb Technical College in Georgia found out recently
that he could face up to 30 years in jail and fines totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars
because he installed some distributed computing software on the school’s computers.”

Reuters reports that supporters of a jailed Russian programmer want Adobe to pay his legal fees.

IDG News Service reports that Dell has quietly stopped offering the Linux operating system as an option on its desktop and laptop PCs. Apparently, there wasn’t enough demand for Dell to continue offering Linux.