The Wall Street Journal has a story saying “many of today’s new crop of technology
entrepreneurs” don’t want court-ordered protection from Microsoft. The article quotes Nat Friedman of Ximian, who says Open Source software can win in the marketplace.

The Associated Press reports that Napster’s song-sharing service was offline today as the service was transforming itself into a music company for paying customers.

Posted at LinuxSecurity.com: “Tkined’s Scotty is a Tcl extension to build network management
applications.
Ntping, a ping/traceroute program, is part of the Scotty package.
It’s failure is to read a hostname as commandline option without checking
the size.
This leads to a bufferoverrun, that could be used to gain root privileges,
because ntping is installed setuid root and is executeable by everyone.”

eWeek reports that Microsoft is asking companies to propsoe new Web services based on its Hailstorm platform, but the company hasn’t guaranteed that this technology will be shared by everyone making proposals.

A column at LinuxPlanet compares AbiWord’s attempt to copy Microsoft Word functionality to a knockoff of Dr. Pepper, only it’s better than the knockoffs. “I figure if AbiWord wants to be in this position, then its only fair to hold it
up to the product its trying to emulate.

If you don’t wait for the hoary details, the short answer is: it will not be a poor imitation at
all, once it a full 1.0 release is made.”

ApacheToday carries a Bugtraq posting detailing a Java servlet scripting vulnerability that could affect Tomcat, WebSphere, and a wide range of other systems and servers.

Posted at LinuxToday: “The Zope authors have released a hotfix that addresses a
vulnerability with ZClasses. Any user can visit a ZClass declaration
and change the ZClass permission mappings for methods and other
objects defined within the ZClass, possibly allowing for unauthorized
access within the Zope instance.”

Internetnews.com: “A Simple Inexpensive Mobile
Computer or Simputer stands to bring the IT revolution to rural India.

Running on three AAA batteries and an Intel chip, the Simputer will
boast a free Linux operating system, 32MB of RAM and 16MB of
Flash memory. At a cost of only $200, this simple device (which
resembles a hefty Palm) may well bring the e-revolution to India
where a scant 2 million PC’s are currently distributed between a
poverty stricken populace of nearly 1 billion.”

“EuroZope barbecue coming soon, how to sell Zope to management
types, Zope 2.4 beta 2 released, and CMF news and discussion
in this week’s ZWN.” Posted at LinuxProgramming.com.

A disturbing message from Kai-Uwe Stattler, posted at LinuxToday: ” have just received a dissuasion from an Adobe lawyer that the name
“KIllustrator” would violate Adobe’s trademark and I should pay 2500
euro. So, I have closed the website at the moment.”