An anonymous reader writes: “Arguing that U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Patel overstepped her authority when she declared Napster must stay closed until its filtering service reaches 100% effectiveness, the company has again gone to the federal appeals court to overturn the district courts ruling. http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2001/appeal2.ht ml“

LinuxPR: “Training4Linux has just added a number of new courses to their current
list. These include an updated GIMP course, further programming
courses in Perl, MySQL courses and a PDF publishing short course.”

LinuxPR: “In response to Microsoft’s bullying of small non-profit, Australia’s leading online Linux store, today
pledged to make CDs containing Red Hat Linux and Sun’s StarOffice available at no cost to
charitable organisations involved in recycling PCs for the disadvantaged organisations for
licenses, EverythingLinux.”

ZDNET: “Compaq is attempting to calm users who are concerned by its decision to eventually discontinue
the development of Alpha processor systems. The firm said last week that it will help users
moving applications to Intel’s Itanium with financial aid if necessary.”

LinuxPR: “DataArchitect is an exciting new tool that we are bringing to Linux that
provides ERD capability like PowerDesigner as well as the ability to
graphically reverse engineer, create and modify a database through
ODBC and perform advanced SQL functions” says Shawn Gordon,
theKompany.com President.

Advogato: “The Vidomi GPL violation case, previously mentioned at Advogato, has been resolved without going to court. Vidomi has splited their program into two programs and released the source code of the encoder, which links to other GPLed libraries, under the GPL. The FSF has approved the resulting arrangement as compliant with the GPL.”

LinuxPR: “Cheetah is a compelling new alternative to ASP, JSP, PHP, PSP, and
Zope for building dynamic web sites.

Cheetah is a Python-powered template engine and code generator.
Cheetah was designed for internet development and provides
integration with Webware: a Python-powered application server
(webware.sourceforge.net). Together with Webware, Cheetah is a
compelling alternative to ASP, JSP, PHP, PSP, and Zope for building
dynamic web sites. Cheetah can also be used without Webware and is
not limited to HTML.”

Kelly McNeill of OSOpinion writes: “Ximian’s going to produce its own version of .NET — and theirs will be available free of charge to all comers. Ximian is best known for its Gnome software, a popular set of programs that gives the complex Linux operating system an easy, Windows-like look and feel. The new Ximian software initiative, code- named “Mono,” may be the most interesting showdown yet between the traditional software industry, which makes money by keeping the contents of its code secret, and “open source” companies like Ximian, which publish their raw source code and encourage outsiders to copy and modify it.”

ZDNet reports that Hewlett-Packard has received a patent for its molecular circuit technology allowing them to connect a very small computer to the outside world.

Kelly McNeill writes “The recent troubles with MSN Messenger, in which it took Microsoft a week to restore full service — and even then about 1 percent of users lost their buddy lists — has some people doubting the future of the company’s latest initiative, HailStorm. HailStorm, based on Microsoft’s new .NET platform, is meant to be a giant database containing user-related information: credit-card numbers, calendars, contacts, e-mail, documents, and so on. Everything is going to be stored in a central location managed by Microsoft, if all goes according to plan .”