It’s at Seul.org. “Ewing Caldwell wrote (in response to the request in the last Linux in education report for software to help with
AFS exchange student tracking) that this ‘sounds like a job for Sympa – a very powerful mailing list manager with a backing
MySQL database and a www (needs Apache)management interface. All that’s needed after installing all that (sympa, additional
perl modules, MySQL and Apache) is to design and make the required tracking data base …’ We hadn’t thought of that, but the
idea certainly makes sense.”

The Register reports that the Fraunhofer Institute and Thomson Multimedia own key technologies incorporated into MP3, and that apparently allows the two companies to “demand royalties from anyone using their intellectual property. This
despite the fact that MP3 is, nominally at least, an open standard. The fees apply to
anyone who produces a commercial MP3 player and all MP3 encoders, be they
commercial or freeware.

Hence the message Dutch developer 8Hz Productions (“two students in Amsterdam
programming for the sake of learning”) recently received from Fraunhofer regarding
its open source 8Hz-MP3 software. Says the organisation: ‘We have received an
email from Fraunhofer (as have more developers) to negotiate the licensing for the
MP3 encoder. As we are poor students, paying the license is not really a viable
option.’ ”

eWeek reports on Apple’s hiring of Jordan Hubbard, one of the founders of the FreeBSD Project. Here’s Hubbard’s announcement.

Linux Journal has a lengthy report on a Free Software and multimedia conference in France recently, including updates on serveral projects.

A reader writes in, “This story at Enterprise Linux discusses Caldera’s response to the outcry to the seat licensing provision in its newest Linux distro.”

An anonymous reader tells us about this story at eWeek. Beta testers and developers believe Microsoft will ship a Linux/Unix version of .Net.

June 25, 2001 (The INTERNET)– The KDE Project today announced the release of KOffice 1.1beta3.
KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE which utilizes open standards for component communication and
component embedding. The primary goals of this release, which follows one month after the release of KOffice
1.1beta2, are to provide a preview of KOffice 1.1 and to involve users and developers who wish to
request/implement missing features or identify problems. Code development is currently focused on stabilizing
KOffice 1.1, scheduled for final release late next quarter. Though this release is a beta, it constitutes the most stable and feature-complete release of KOffice to date.
The KOffice team encourages all users of earlier KOffice releases to upgrade to KOffice 1.1beta3. In
particular, this release is substantially more stable and feature-complete than KOffice 1.0, which was released
together with KDE 2.0 in October 2000. Changes to individual KOffice components since the last beta release
are enumerated below. In addition, a list of changes since the KOffice 1.0 release, and a FAQ about KOffice,
are available at the KOffice website.

The most significant improvements since the last beta release occurred in KWord, particularly in the
implementation of new features in respect of inline pictures, tables, frames, line spacing, auto-correction and
page breaks, as well as a host of usability improvements, such as automatic switching between modes,
improved menus and more pop-up menus. For a further list of improvements to KOffice since the last release,
please refer to the incremental changelog below.

This release includes the following components:

• KWord (a frame-based, full-featured word processor)
• KPresenter (a presentation application)
• KSpread (a spreadsheet application)
• KIllustrator (a vector-drawing application)
• Krayon (a bitmap image editor f/k/a KImageShop)
• Kivio (a flowchart application)
• KChart (a chart drawing application)
• KFormula (a formula editor)
• Kugar (a tool for generating business quality reports); and
  filters (for importing/exporting documents).

KOffice and all its components are available for free under Open Source licenses from the KDE server and its
mirrors. As a result of the dedicated efforts of hundreds of translators, KOffice 1.1beta3 is available in 27
languages.

Incremental Changelog
The following are the major improvements, enhancements and fixes since the KOffice-1.1beta2 release last
month:

All suite applications:

• added many page formats;
• extended general DCOP facilities (for scripting suite applications);
• switched to KGhostview for print previews (requires kdelibs-2.2.x);
• added a warning if a file is saved in a non-native file format;
• improved language and grammar (no more typos);
• fixed auto-addition of file extensions; and
• fixed crash on loading remote documents.

KWord:

• added a new preview mode (multiple pages per row);
• improved drawing of inline elements (variables, images, frames) when selected;
• added ability to toggle objects between inline and non-inline;
• improved read-only mode (when KWord is embedded in Konqueror text can now be
  selected and copied);
• implemented Insert Frame and Insert Page Break (also as part of styles);
• implemented “1.5” and “double” line-spacing (also as part of styles);
• added an Apply button to the stylist;
• implement arbitrary zoom values;
• added auto-correction, typographical quotes;
• added a “View Formatting Characters” feature for displaying the format codes
  in the document;
• implemented insertion of (configurable) predefined expressions;
• implemented auto-switching between text editing and frame editing;
• added ability to set all frame types as “copy”;
• added the Flesch reading ease score as well as the enhanced layout to the
  statistics dialog;
• added support for importing WMF clip-art;
• increased spell-checking options (requires kdelibs >= 2.2-alpha2);
• implemented auto-adjusting frame size;
• added undo-redo availability to many actions;
• added new bullets-numbering dialog (visible in the stylist and the paragraph editor);
• enhanced context-menus (RMB popup);
• added changing the case (capitals) of a text selection;
• improved usability with better mouse selection and some new key bindings;
• achieved major speedups for large documents (improvements in paragraph
• formatting, loading and painting fixes);
• added a submenu for custom variables;
• fixed recalculation of “page number” variable in header and footer;
• fixed painting and run-around-frame (e.g., in multi-columns mode);
• fixed the creation and removal of pages;
• fixed crash when embedding into Konqueror;
• fixed Table Of Contents creation and updates;
• fixed placement and drawing of tables; and
• fixed many other things, this list is far from complete.

KPresenter:

• decreased size of saved documents;
• added mouse wheel navigation between pages during presentations;
• added the ability to move objects with the arrow keys;
• improved many UI elements (enabling/disabling of actions);
• improved the appearance (same page drawing as in KWord); and
• added a new configuration dialog.

KSpread:

• added CSV Import-Filter dialog; and
• fixed drawing when embedded (no active cell).

For more details, including available binary packages and instructions, see

http://www.koffice.org/announcements/announce-1.1-beta3.phtml.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-June 26, 2001–Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT), the leader in developing, deploying
and managing open source solutions, today announced a new suite of consulting services designed to help companies
plan and rapidly migrate key elements of their computing infrastructure to Linux and other open source solutions.Open Source Consulting and Implementation Offerings
The new open source consulting services target areas where open source technologies can greatly improve the strategic
use of IT infrastructure through more effective delivery of business requirements. Services include:

• Linux migration and integration services that help customers plan and migrate proprietary Unix-based infrastructure
  and applications to Linux.
• Open source Web infrastructure services that provide comprehensive planning and deployment of solutions based
  on open source secure Web servers, firewalls, content management applications, e-commerce and other open
  source technologies.
• Open source strategic opportunities services that enable IT executives to review and evaluate the benefits of open
  source technologies, and to explore opportunities to pilot open source solutions within their organization.

“Increasingly, global enterprises are migrating expensive, proprietary Unix systems to open source—reducing IT
overhead and the total cost of ownership,” said Brett Pinegar, Vice President/General Manager of Open Source
Consulting. “Seven years of experience deploying open source solutions places us in a unique position to impact our
customers’ bottom line.”

Supported by Additional Implementation, Training and Support Offerings
As part of Red Hat’s strategy to provide end-to-end, open source solutions, Red Hat also offers implementation, training
and support offerings centered on core Red Hat products, including operating systems, tools, network services, mail and
directory solutions and the recently announced Red Hat Database.

For more information, please visit www.redhat.com/products/consulting/opensource.

About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat is the leader in developing, deploying and managing solutions built on the benefits of an open source platform.
These solutions include an open source product platform that provides the only common, globally available, and award
winning Linux operating system from mainframes to embedded devices, an e-Commerce platform, Database, Secure Web
Server, High Availability Server, and embedded Linux, eCos, and GNU-based developer toolkit for embedded devices.
Red Hat backs up their open source offerings with end-to-end Red Hat Professional Services that include Professional
Consulting, Engineering services, Enterprise Support services and Learning services. This is all brought together with Red
Hat Network as the Internet-based backbone for deployment and management of products and services for Linux based
infrastructures.

Come meet famous open source developers and luminaries at Red Hat TechWorld, the world’s foremost open source
conference. Visit http://www.redhat-techworld.com for information on how to plan your trip to this year’s conference in
Brussels.

Red Hat is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C. and has offices worldwide. Please visit Red Hat on the Web at
www.redhat.com. For investor inquiries, contact Gabriel Szulik at Red Hat, (919) 547-0012.

Forward-Looking Statements
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Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Investors are cautioned that statements in this press release that are not strictly historical
statements, including, without limitation, management’s plans and objectives for future operations, and management’s
assessment of market factors, constitute forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and
uncertainties include, without limitation, reliance upon strategic relationships, management of growth, the possibility of
undetected software errors, the risks of economic downturns generally, and in Red Hat’s industry specifically, the risks
associated with competition and competitive pricing pressures, the viability of the Internet, and other risks detailed in Red
Hat’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which may be accessed through the SEC’s Web site
at http://www.sec.gov.

LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. RED HAT is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. All other names and
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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“Trolltech has created a brand-new Non-Commercial License that will allow
Windows developers to use Qt, the cross-platform C++ GUI application development framework, at no charge. The Non-Commercial License lets developers download Qt at no charge to either evaluate the framework
before purchase, or to create software for personal use on the Microsoft Windows platform. For example, a
developer could use the Non-Commercial License to write a chat client or MP3 player. The license allows them
to use that application and even distribute it to other users. What they cannot do is charge a fee for its use.” Read the full press release at Trolltech.

In this edition of links for the Tcl developer community, check out a testimonial on productivity of working with Tcl, something about “that i18n thing,” and a call to arms for self-testing Tcl scripts. Message posted at LinuxProgramming.com.