IT-director.com looks at Caldera’s per-seat license. “There has always been a fundamental problem with the Open Source
movement. To some extent, it debars businesses from making a decent
living out of its work because of the emphasis on shared code and free
licenses. Finally, Caldera has dared to stick a license fee on its new
OpenLinux Workstation product.”

Computer.org has a long story about the problems it sees with Linux. Among the usual suspects: Multiple distribtions and the two file formats.

IDG News Service reports that the Cult of the Dead Cow is delaying the release of software meant to allow
users to evade government censorship of the
Internet. The project was originally scheduled for
launch next month at
Def Con.

Posted at LWN.net: “IBM is pleased to announce the v 1.0.0 release of the open source
Journaled File System (JFS), a high-performance, and scalable file
system for Linux.”

Posted at LWN.net: “IBM is pleased to announce the v 1.0.0 release of the open source
Journaled File System (JFS), a high-performance, and scalable file
system for Linux.”

LinuxToday has an interview with ESR, the Open Source advocate and member of VA Linux Board of Directors. (VA Linux owns NewsForge.) On VA leaving the hardware business: “The world used to need Linux hardware specialists, but times have changed. In 1998 stuff like server-ready SMP motherboards was still exotic
hardware and Linux was still novel; having expertise in either was unusual and being able to sell the combination was an attractive business, especially with an
Internet buildout in full roar.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the bank. Linux succeeded too well,
and attracted too much money. VA helped that happen; it built damn fine
hardware, it subsidized a lot of open-source projects, sponsored a lot of shows,
and did marketing into places the Linux community never reached before …”

FFII, ENEF.org – a European association
of
Internet startup companies, EuroLinux and VoV — the Internet section
of
the German social democrat party, will organise on July 5th at
LinuxTag in
Stuttgart a seminar to study the concept of the technical invention
in the
European patent system. http://swpat.ffii.org/penmi/linuxtag-2001/.

Recently the patentability of software and business methods has
become a
subject of an intense public debate with expert input from a wide
range of
fields, including engineering, informatics, law, economics and
philosophy.
At the core of this debate lies the distinction between matter-based
“technical inventions” and mind-based “rules of organisation and
calculation”. This requirement of “technicity”, in its original
meaning,
leads to the exclusion of software and intangible services from
patentability. The notion of technicity, in its recent meaning
defined by
judges at the European Patent Office, leads to the patentability of
software and intangible services and to a de facto limitless patent
system.

The seminar will study the evolution of the meaning of technicity in
the
last 15 years. Participants include lawyers, software specialists,
representatives of professional associations, politicians, civil
servants
and researchers.

The seminar will be organised at LinuxTag in Germany, one of the
most
active market for free/opensource software in Europe. LinuxTag is
the
biggest Linux exhibition in the world. Free software is actively
supported
by the German governments which sponsors projects such a GPG as well
as
the Berlios opensource software portal (http://www.berlios.de).

Registration

If you want to participate, please contact linuxtag-2001@ffii.org.

About EuroLinux – www.EuroLinux.org

The EuroLinux Alliance for a Free Information Infrastructure is an
open
coalition of commercial companies and non-profit associations united
to
promote and protect a vigourous European Software Culture based on
Open
Standards, Open Competition, Linux and Open Source Software.
Companies
members or supporters of EuroLinux develop or sell software under
free,
semi-free and non-free licenses for operating systems such as Linux,
MacOS
or Windows.

The EuroLinux Alliance launched on 2000-06-15 an electronic petition
to
protect software innovation in Europe. The EuroLinux petition has
received
so far massive support from more than 80.000 European citizens, 2000
corporate managers and 300 companies.

The EuroLinux Alliance has co-organised in 1999, together with the
French
Embassy in Japan, the first Europe-Japan conference on Linux and
Free
Software. The EuroLinux Alliance is at the initiative of the
www.freepatents.org web site to promote and protect innovation and
competition in the European IT industry.

Press Contacts

France & Europe: Stefane Fermigier sf@fermigier.com +33-6 63 04 12
77
Germany & Europe: Harmut Pilch phm@ffii.org +49-89 127 89 608
Denmark and Northern Europe: Anne O/stergaard aoe@sslug.dk
Belgium: Nicolas Pettiaux nicolas.pettiaux@linuxbe.org

Legalese

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
All other trademarks and copyrights are owned by their respective
companies.

ZDNet reports that a federal appeals court has vacated a lower court’s ruling calling for the breakup of Microsoft. Slashdot has discussion and more links.

Databeacon, Inc., creator of Internet-based data
analysis and reporting software for the masses, today announced support
for
the Linux operating system for Databeacon 5.1. The Linux version of
Databeacon 5.1 runs on all Linux-based desktop systems, and does not
require
any training, manuals or installation procedures for end users.

According to a March 2001 study by market research firm IDC, Linux is
the
fastest growing operating system for the enterprise. The growth of the
Linux operating system surpassed all other systems in 2000, increasing
its
market share to 27 percent. By developing support for Linux,
Databeacon is
extending its commitment to provide its data analysis software to all
users,
regardless of the platform they are using to run their desktop.

Currently offering support for a variety of operating systems,
including
Microsoft Windows 95,98,2000 and NT; UNIX-IBM AIX, HP-UX, and Sun
Solaris;
and Compaq TRU64, the addition of Linux support further extends
Databeacon’s
mission to provide platform agnostic data analysis tools for the
masses.

“Databeacon is embracing Linux by providing a data analysis tool that
is
completely compliant with the operating system,” said Andrew Coutts,
CEO,
Databeacon. “More companies each year are turning to the
cost-effective and
highly-stable Linux operating system, and Databeacon is committed to
open
source and offering its software to customers on any and all
platforms.”

Databeacon targets Internet-driven organizations that want to deliver
information analysis and reporting capabilities to a mass audience of
casual
users. Databeacon 5.1 allows mass audiences to self-service their data
analysis needs through a simple end-user interface and customized,
pre-defined levels for novice, standard or advanced users. Unlike
traditional business intelligence products, Databeacon 5.1, does not
require
any training, manuals or installation procedures, providing an
appealing
value proposition to companies that want to deliver data analysis and
reporting to Internet-based audiences such as customers, suppliers,
partners, and employees.

About Databeacon, Inc.
Founded in 1995, Databeacon Inc. (formerly InterNetivity Inc.), is the
award
winning developer of Internet-based information analysis and reporting
software to Get Insight Out(tm). Organizations around the world are
using
Databeacon to deploy Information Outreach(tm) applications, defined as
“the
delivery of self-personalized, interactive information and analytical
capabilities to large Internet-based user audiences”. The company’s Web
site
is www.databeacon.com and its headquarters are based in Ottawa, Canada,
with
sales offices across North America, resellers in Europe and Independent
Software Vendor (ISV) partners located around the world.

For more information, please contact:

In Canada
Nathan Rudyk

Databeacon

Tel: 613.729.4480, ext. 304

nrudyk@databeacon.com

Heather Steele
High Road Communications
Tel: 416-368-8348, ext. 229
hsteele@highroad.com

In the U.S.:
Justin Creally
High Road Communications
Tel: 415-262-1982
jcreally@highroad.com

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/. Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org.

Cox writes, “This is the initial merge with 2.4.6pre — treat this one with care, it
may
not be the most reliable 2.4.5ac release ever made.”

2.4.5-ac20
o Commence resync with 2.4.6pre5
– Merge kernel doc tool changes
– Merge sunrpc printk check change
– Merge net core changes
– Merge Bluetooth stack
– Merge inet proto register
– Merge bridge updates
– Merge net/ipv4 and ipv6 changes
– Merge x86 arch support
– Merge m68k port changes
– Merge ppc port changes
– Merge sparc32/64 changes
– Merge ACPI
– Merge ll_rw_blk changes
– Merge miro rds changes
– Merge USB updates

Kept xtime volatile – pending verification drivers are safe with
this change

Kept old atyfb code (someone needs to sort out which atyfb is the
one being worked on and get that tree into the kernel)

As with 2.4.6pre power management PCI interface changes
mean power management is likely to be broken somewhat

Also there is some kind of deadlock I suspect related to the
mm changes in 2.4.6pre/2.4.5ac14
o Resync with 2.4.6pre6
o Add macserial printk levels (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Add picturebook vaio wide console mode support (Marcel Wijlaars)
o Riscom8 driver printk/regions etc (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o ESP serial driver clean up (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o dz serial driver clean up (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Fix hangs during heavy buffer I/O (Arjan van de Ven)
(eg mke2fs)
o Clean up doubletalk driver (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Further imsttfb updates (Paul Mundt)
o MTD missing export fixes (David Woodhouse)
o MTD configure script fixes (me)
o MTD include fixes (me)
o Yamaha pci audio cleanup , longer delay (Pete Zaitcev)
o i810 ioctl fix (Damjan Lango)
o Add printk levels to tty_io.c
and tty_ioctl.c (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Small acm serial driver cleanup (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Printk levels for via-pmu (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Improve kernel-doc parser (Christian Kreibich)
o Disable AMI megaraid 64bit mode (Martti Hyppänen)
| Seems the HP board firmware reports 64bit supported but
| it doesn’t actually work reliably on them

2.4.5-ac19
o Update Gareth Hughes contact info (Gareth Hughes)
o Make sure NFS atime is handled by server (Trond Myklebust)
o Fix Configure.help glitch (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Fix nfs readdir EIO and duplicates bug (Trond Myklebust)
o Fix netlink removal of proc directory (Herbert Rosmanith)
o Use skb_purge_queue in net stacks (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
| lapb, netrom, econet, rose, ax25, atm, sched,
| socket core, unix
o Fix reference after free in eql driver (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Fix reference after free in shaper (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Gameport fixes for Alpha (Jeff Garzik)
o Configure.help updates (Eric Raymond)
o JFFS copyright banner update (David Woodhouse)
o Update docs on binfmt_misc java (Kurt Huwig)
o Fix tty release_mem oops (Tachino Nobuhiro)
o Pull nfs data out of inode struct (Al Viro)
o Assorted UML fixes (Jeff Dike)
o Improve missed tick handling on UML (Jeff Dike)
o Fix hdc/hdd reporting on disks in /proc/stat (Martin Wilck)
o Fix sign extension of dirent’s in readdir (Trond Myklebust)
o Ensure LVM dropped snapshot is not reactivated (Joe Thornber)
o Change kiovec handling in LVM (Joe Thornber)