Slashdot readers discuss an an article by Computerworld accusing Chinese Linux developers of not releasing their changes to the Open Source community.

From the humor site, Segfault: “Following its trial-balloon claim that KDE’s kIllustrator infringes on Adobe’s trademarked Illustrator
program, Adobe has announced that it will file lawsuits against all companies that produce graphics
editors which, to a computer-illiterate observer, might look like Adobe’s own graphics program.”

Slashdot has a link to a story in German about KIllustrator’s author being threatened by Adobe’s lawyers to pay about $2,000, destroy the program’s packaging, and disclose all the program’s users, to avoid a court case.

The Register has the results. Apache is running on 63% of servers, and Microsoft-IIS on 20%.

The 16th edition includes information on SOAP and DCOP, Konqueror and security, and competing Monopoly games.

muks writes, “Pictures of Linux Expo, held in Olympia, London, are here at conic.cx. You may want to post them. Cheers.”

ZDNet UK has a story on the Linux Expo in London this week. Companies are showcasing tools “designed to step up software development and software to make Linux more
attractive for high-end servers and workstations. In the mean time, Linux has grown in the last year
into a serious competitor for Microsoft’s Windows operating system, according to industry experts.”

WebShepherd writes, “The buzzing din for open development and version control for PHPNuke, the increasingly popular Slashdot-like content management system (CMS) has errupted into a full-blown religious war that demonstrate some of the potential problems related to the open source licensing model.

“Not long after the release of Version 5.0, its author, Francisco Burzi (a.k.a. NukeLite), posted a 5-point response to his critics where he admits to bending the terms of the GPL in releases of prior beta and release candidate versions. Moreover, he asserts that he’ll never open development nor submit it to CVS, and that he’s likely to release future versions under non-GPL licensing.

“In response to this response, John Cox, (a.k.a. NiceGuyEddie), the author of several How-To-Nuke tutorials has taken matters into his own hands and created Post-Nuke, the Fallout Version. In a 7-point manifesto, he claims this fork will offer all of the open source benefits not found with PHPNuke.

“Considering the length and breath of the code, and the nature of the PHPNuke community, only time will tell which side will prevail.” (Editor’s warning: Slow loading pages on some links.)

Cox writes, “Linux 2.2 is now firmly into maintenance state. Patches for neat new
ideas
belong in 2.4. Generally new drivers belong in 2.4 (possibly in 2.2 as
well
after 2.4 shows them stable)
. Expect me to be very picky on changes to
the
core code now.”

2.2.20pre7
o Merge rose buffr management fixes (Jean-Paul Roubelat)
o Configure.help updates (Steven Cole)
o Add Steven Cole to credits (Steven Cole)
o Update kbuild list info (Michael Chastain)
o Fix slab.c doc typo (Piotr Kasprzyk)
o Lengthen parport probe timeout (Jean-Luc Coulon)
o Fix vm86 cleanup (Stas Sergeev)
o Fix 8139too build bug (Jürgen Zimmermann)
o Fix slow 8139too performance (Oleg Makarenko)
o Sparc64 exec fixes (Solar Designer)

2.2.20pre6
o Merge all the pending ISDN updates (Kai Germaschewski)
| These are sizable changes and want a good testing
o Fix sg deadlock bug as per 2.4 (Douglas Gilbert)
o Count socket/pipe in quota inode use (Paul Menage)
o Fix some missing configuration help texts (Steven Cole)
o Fix Rik van Riel’s credits entry (Rik van Riel)
o Mark xtime as volatile in extern definition (various people)
o Fix open error return checks (Andries Brouwer)

2.2.20pre5
o Fix a patch generation error, replaces 2.2.20pre4 which is
wrong on ad1848

Slashdot has the information, plus links to download sites.